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...CHILI CON CARNE, HOLD THE CARNE...
...hard-drugs crowd--Generation H--needed a bard, Clark would be the guy. His Kids was a glum screed about teens, drugs and unsafe sex. At least in Paradise, from a novel by ex-con Eddie Little, the lowlifes have some fun shooting up and stealing. Here two career criminals (James Woods and Melanie Griffith) adopt a young couple (Vincent Kartheiser and Natasha Gregson Wagner) into la dolce venom. There's a droll tough love in this inversion of Father Knows Best, where Dad is given to arias of rage, Mom kills people, Bud and Princess do junk. The tone...
...pound relentlessly at their laptops, the procrastinator stares into space, calls up forgotten friends, performs elaborate and time-con-suming rituals such as nail-polish application, and stays at dinner from 5:30 p.m. until removal by the dining hall staff...
...work against some viruses, including rotavirus, one of the most common causes of diarrhea in children in the U.S. and around the world. Here the effect is indirect. Somehow L-GG jump-starts the immune system into recognizing the threat posed by the virus. In October a subsidiary of Con Agra started marketing L-GG under the brand name Culturelle. (For more information, call...
Fortunately, "Osama's buyers weren't physicists, and the people selling to him were trying to rip him off," says an Energy Department official. The enriched uranium they were offered turned out to be low-grade reactor fuel unusable for a weapon. Another con man tried to sell them radioactive garbage, claiming it was "red mercury," a supposedly lethal Russian bomb the CIA says never existed. Frustrated, bin Laden instead settled on chemical weapons, which are easier to manufacture. Although U.S. intelligence officials have been unable to pinpoint hidden caches, they suspect that during a five-year stay in Sudan...