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...mangroves. But beneath the tranquil expanse sits one of South Florida's most contentious social problems: a large colony of convicted sex offenders, thrown into homelessness in recent years by draconian residency restrictions that leave them scant available or affordable housing. They live in tents and shacks built from cast-off supplies, clinging to pylons and embankments, with no running water, electricity or bathrooms. Not even during a recent cold spell, when nighttime temperatures dropped into the 30s, could they move into temporary lodging...
...pointless: cruel because the Boy is entitled to an image of his mother, pointless because every time the Man looks at the Boy's face, he must see her reflection--Smit-McPhee looks so uncannily like Theron that it's impossible to forget her. (The Boy also wears her cast-off hat for virtually the whole movie, playing up the resemblance...
...staff still assigned to the Hummer continue to work at turning the cast-off brand into an independent company that could continue to sell vehicles around the world. They have lined up a $20.4 million grant from the state of Michigan to put its headquarters in or around Detroit. The grant, however, is contingent on the completion of the deal with Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery, according to Michigan state officials...
...that on a winter Sunday in Senior Year. I wish I had some pajamas or a bathrobe, but I just pull on my old jeans and sweatshirt, a little damp from gin and sweat.I seem to have this part of the attic mostly to myself. There are a few cast-off sneakers and pocketbooks strewn across the floor, but no sounds of anyone breathing. After looking at the snowy pines, whose tops are about level with the windows on this floor, I swig some mouthwash, spit it out, and climb another half flight of stairs, into what looks like...
...started time-traveling and talking to ghosts for no apparent reason. “Lost” fanatics sustain their much-abused curiosity with a fervent belief that all of the show’s questions will ultimately be answered. The labyrinthine lostpedia.org offers insight, however misplaced, into every cast-off detail of the show, and if there’s any way to make some random number from the show add or multiply to 815 (the number of the doomed Oceanic flight), these people have found it. Yet my relationship to the world of “Lost?...