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...this as a time to experiment with crossing genres from singing to acting or vice versa, or to soften a hard image by surrounding yourself with singing children or elderly people. And when in doubt, do as some stars do and mysteriously, or rather strategically, disappear from the holiday radar screen—at least until Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin?...
...home on leave. He challenged the edict with his brigadier, who was equally bemused. They attempted to verify it, but communications had been cut. So they dismissed half the unit and watched the other half vanish soon after. "One top commander, a traitor, can make the whole army disappear," Hussan says, ashamed of his comrades' performance. With the U.S. briefed on the locations of many of Saddam's forces, the Americans devised novel ways to intimidate troops who might have stood their ground. "They broke into our [field] radio and told us they knew our precise locations," says a junior...
...statistics suggests that Americans don't know how to put that information into practice. Two out of three Americans are overweight or obese. The incidence of Type 2 diabetes among children is climbing. And any gains we've made against heart disease by quitting smoking may be about to disappear...
...face of this great big one. Exhibit A was Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, a caustic drama about a married man who is late for work at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 because he's visiting his mistress--and then contemplates using the tragedy to disappear with her and finally leave his wife...
They were making holes disappear in front of Northeastern tailback Tim Gale. They were manhandling offensive linemen so that their teammates could blow by and terrorize Husky quarterback Shawn Brady. And then, of course, they were in the backfield themselves, chalking up sacks and forcing bad passes...