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With thirty-five stories to choose from, there is something for everyone in Bizarro World, from someone who gets all the references in the Justice League story “Take Your Kids to Work Day” to the subversive romantic sympathizing with the dating travails of Deadman, a ghost that can briefly possess the living to the media satire of “The Red Bee Returns,” an attempt by a long-dormant hero to receive mainstream attention. No matter what your graphic novel baggage, the trip to Bizarro World is worth the ride...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comics Review: Bizarro World | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...Judge Loble is guarding that trust. The 250-mile-long Musselshell River, which bisects much of the center of the state west to east, has run dry. Stunted brown patches of barley and drooping cornstalks along its winding path testify to the summer's record heat wave. Deadman's Basin, one of the river's three storage reservoirs, yielded a piddling 10,000 acre-ft. of water this year, compared with an average of 48,940 acre-ft. Due in large part to the lack of water, the state's winter wheat harvest was the smallest since the Dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Dust Bowl | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

After clearing the Arrow DC-8 for takeoff at 6:45 a.m., the Gander tower operators heard nothing more from the crew. The four-engine jet began its roll, speeding past Deadman's Pond on its left, and its wheels left the runway at 6:49. It was airborne for less than one minute before veering to its right and dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the Screaming Eagles | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...remaining four songs, two are insignificant. "Deadman, Deadman" is a rather dull reggea, while "Trouble" is a loud blues that leaves the listener indifferent...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: After the Flood | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...been at the helm for more than 24 hr., trying to stay in "good water." His eyes dart with worry as the Cavalier passes points that were mapped with sailors' lives: Icy Cape, Skull Cliff, Deadman's Island. Legs braced, he peers at the radar as Second Mate Rod Doe, 22, calls out compass bearings. Haifa mile in front, another tug, Navigator, comes across shallow water and its tow chains drag along the bottom, kicking up swirling brown puffs of gravel and mud. Minutes later, when Cavalier's tow chains drag, the entire boat shudders and bucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off Alaska: A Race Through the Arctic Ice | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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