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...action scenes, abundant chases, explosions and lavish gadgetry with which a Bond film is now associated has entertainment value of its own. But to claim that the current films have any more tradition or class to them than any generic action movie with say, Arnold or Stephen Segal, is bunk. Better to just do away with the whole cumbersome apparatus and obligatory baggage which slapping a Bond label on a movie entails, and instead devote the energy to making good original action films...
...connections between the El Nino phenomenon and ecological disruptions like seabird starvation and crop failure are based on solid scientific data and cannot be dismissed as "bunk," the term used by Charles Krauthammer in his commentary on blaming El Nino [VIEWPOINT, Nov. 17]. The potential connection between global warming and the increased frequency of El Ninos in recent decades was taken directly from peer-reviewed scientific articles. Attempts to educate the public about science should be based on true scientific understanding, and not on subjective journalistic whim. ERIC SANFORD, Ph.D. candidate Department of Zoology Oregon State University Corvallis...
Most, if not all, of these attributions are bunk. But if you are selling umbrellas in Los Angeles, where a 500% increase in rainfall was predicted--well, that was weeks ago; it's down to 150%--you don't care. Business is good...
...they were forced to sell trinkets up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, for roughly 74[cents] an hour. Of the $400 each worker was paid monthly, $200 was siphoned off for rent. In a locked room off the areas scattered with mattresses, sleeping bags and bunk beds, police found evidence of their hard labor: $35,000 in cash, $10,000 of it in $1 bills. Within hours, five Paoletti clansmen and two others were arrested, but U.S. and Mexican authorities were still hunting for clan patriarch Jose Paoletti Moreda, 59, who allegedly masterminded the "mattress mill...
...last week, in that spacious Rancho Santa Fe mansion, with the bougainvillaea in full bloom outside, 39 bodies were laid out on their backs on bunk beds and mattresses, looking like so many laboratory specimens pinned neatly to a board. Each was dressed in black pants, flowing black shirt, spanking-new black Nikes. Their faces were hidden by purple cloths, shrouds the purple of Christian penance. Those who wore glasses had them neatly folded next to their body, and all, helpfully, had identification papers for the authorities to find. The house, more than one awed witness noted, was immaculate, tidier...