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...originally from the area, and I don’t specifically know what’s happened, and I’m curious,” she said. “I think it would actually be a good idea. It’s just an important piece of Catholic news that we should know about...
...earned $46 million, the second best opening ever for an animated film (after Monsters, Inc.'s $63 million). Its mammoth debut was a thundering surprise, not just because the PG-rated film came from 20th Century Fox, a studio with a dismal animation track record, but also because a curious 30% of the audience was what Hollywood calls "nonfamily" moviegoers. In other words, the audience was not just moms and dads and kids--they are to be expected--but also young adults and teens, including the species Homo adolescence, teenage boys who usually avoid anything without action-adventure or Adam...
...insists. "I want to dedicate the last few years of my life to confront the difficulties in the land to which I belong." He will leave his villa in north Rome for a cluster of hillside residences in Kabul (his palace is a fire-gutted shell). He is curious to see whether the small farm 20 miles from the capital, where he grew grapes, melons and pears from imported plants, survived the war. Karzai hopes that Zahir Shah will be a symbol of unity, but the President won't have to worry about being outshone in other ways. Unlike Karzai...
SmithKline Beecham, now part of GLAXOSMITHKLINE, anticipated BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB's acceleration of its anticancer drug Taxol, in part because Bristol-Myers Squibb took a curious interest in amending the Endangered Species Act to enable more harvesting of the yew tree, whose bark produces the active chemical agent in Taxol. SmithKline's suspicions were strengthened in the early '90s when it noticed an increase in the number of oncology positions listed in help-wanted ads run by its competitor in trade papers. Bristol-Myers Squibb had also told financial analysts it was investing more money in its oncology unit...
...book seriously. The fantasy lives of young girls may be “secret” in that the girls did not discuss them before they were interviewed for Lamb’s book, but it is hardly shocking to the modern reader that young girls masturbate or are curious about boys’ bodies. Lamb seems occasionally to assume that the feelings of repression voiced by the older women she interviewed are also applicable to the younger generation. As a result, she fails to convince her readers that the social norms that she aims to dismantle are actually present...