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Layer Cake features, yes, an antihero with no name and no backstory. He's simply called XXXX in the credits, and he's played by a gelid Daniel Craig. He is a) a drug dealer and b) a man who, having made his pile, wishes to abandon his life of crime and start hanging about at posh country clubs. But prosperous as he is, he is still only middle management in the criminal pastry shop. He has obligations to his masters, chief of which is to help them recover a vast shipment of ecstasy pills that have gone missing somewhere...
Moreno's critics are scratching their heads. Why would an owner who last season generated so much good will, and extra revenues, by cutting ticket prices and signing American League MVP Vladimir Guerrero provide fodder for late-night comedians? (Craig Ferguson joked of another name change: "The San Francisco Giants on Steroids"). More important, why would Moreno potentially alienate an affluent suburban fan base in Orange County? Says Anaheim mayor Curt Pringle, a red T shirt that reads THE ANAHEIM ANGELS OF ANAHEIM hanging in his office: "We're sad, and we're very disappointed...
...fetch over €1 million. "It's a sin," says Tiziano Sarteanesi, a La Fondazione Albizzini board member and a close friend of Burri's. Sarteanesi and other Albizzini officials went to collect the art in November 2003, shortly after the death of the artist's American wife, Minsa Craig Burri. "When we entered the house we found nothing, no paintings, no jewels, no documents, nothing," Sarteanesi says somberly. Since then, police in France and Italy have traced the works back to America, but there the trail went cold. They declined to provide any details of their investigation...
...GEOFFREY CRAIG...
...Craig Kinsley and Kelly Lambert, two Virginia neuroscientists who have done truly pioneering work, have dissected rats' brains and found that during pregnancy there was a tremendous blossoming of what are called dendritic spines--the parts of the neurons that reach out and form synapses, necessary for new learning. Dr. Kinsley compares it to a computer acquiring extra bandwidth to help it run more than one program at a time. There has also been some intriguing recent research on the impacts of two hormones important to motherhood, oxytocin and prolactin, on mental functioning--specifically, learning and memory and the reduction...