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...McDonagh country again for sure. Two gravediggers, whose job is to clear out old corpses in the local cemetery so new ones can be buried in their place, dig up the remains of one fellow's late wife. She turns out to have a huge gash in her skull, implying that her husband might have murdered her. Much of this, believe it or not, is played for laughs (in one scene the pair smash a skeleton to smithereens), but McDonagh's comedy, unlike Lonergan's, never seems pasted on, or patronizing. We never lose sight of the dark drama beneath...
...book does not revolutionize the way you think, but it does help give you a unjaded view on how to improve your life in college. And everybody knows how much Harvard students dig self-improvement...
REAL WHIRLED Luckily, we have yet to see Temptation Island for Tots. But even for children, an emphasis on the real world exists in home entertainment. Kids who dig machinery might want to check out the There Goes a ... series (Kid Vision). The 19 titles cover everything from roller coasters to fire engines. Those whose taste runs more to pigs than rigs should try Zoboomafoo (Warner Home Video), episodes from the TV series about animals...
...overturn the regulations, which went into effect Jan. 16. Businesses are howling that the 1,688 pages of standards they must meet could cost over $100 billion a year. But the opposition, citing figures of 600,000 people a year laid up by the injuries, is ready to dig in its heels. Repetitive-stress injuries from stretching, bending and typing are "the most significant safety and health problem that workers face today," argues Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...Bilham: Not exactly. There are people working very hard on figuring out when the big one will happen. We can dig down and figure out when things were last disturbed in quake activity, and then develop probabilities based on those findings. But these are just probabilities - earthquake prediction, as you can probably guess, is not a precise...