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...Good Girl tries to have fun with minimum-wage, dead-end America, and it does jerk some reluctant laughs out of us. On the other hand, like Chuck & Buck, the previous film by director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White, it is rather too well disposed to near psychotic behavior. Deranged souls are not necessarily holy fools. And depressed ones--however subversive--are not in the end very funny...
...Down a dead-end street in Canoga Park, Calif., just north of Los Angeles, sits the only factory--you could call it the Global Headquarters--of Faber Enterprises, where 110 workers make precision metal fittings for the hydraulic lines in airplanes. The sun-baked, white facility, nearly the size of a football field, is run so frugally that there is no receptionist, just a phone by the door. But according to the European airplane manufacturer Airbus, this is a world-class shop. Airbus has signed up Faber, which has made fittings for Boeing, to make them for its newest aircraft...
...million years old) and Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba (5.8 million), have been put forward as the most ancient of our direct ancestors. But Toumai is older still. If it is as modern looking as Wood believes, Lucy and the others may not be our direct ancestors at all but instead dead-end side branches of the family tree, like the Neanderthals. That would make them not our great-great-great-grandparents but rather ancient uncles and aunts whose lineages have long since gone extinct. One possibility is that Sahelanthropus gave rise to intermediate descendant species that have not yet been discovered...
...bitter disappointment. For the Egyptians, Saudis and Jordanians, the quid-pro-quo for ending the conflict had been an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders. What they got was an exhaustive set of political and security demands on the Palestinians in exchange simply for a return to the dead-end situation of September 2000. President Bush sounded a clear warning that he wanted no whining from any Arab allies, reiterating that "you're either with us or against us." For good measure, they're expected to help get rid of Arafat and implement the Bush plan for Palestinian democracy...
...alternatives like Macrobiotics, an Asian-based system of diet and spirituality. These efforts result in short-lived successes, with the Beauchards leading increasingly isolated lives and Jean-Christofe sinking deeper into anger and illness. By the end of book one the author's parents are "lost" amid the many dead-end, hocus-pocus cures, Florence the younger sister has attempted suicide, and the author has locked himself inside the armor of a twelve-year-old cynic...