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...episode was not without its fair share of obstacles. Character continuity was an issue without a resolution: students who initiated the effort would leave, and new ones would jump on board. “Readers don’t want characters to appear half way through the book, or disappear half way,” Goldstein says. And then, like any other scribe, he had writer’s block. Setting down his egg-and-cheese bagel, Goldstein explains that his prose felt “stilted and too removed.” He finally found his voice after writing...
Asked if he is concerned about overexposure, Carell jokes about his ultimate plan being to “disappear in a fiery wreck of a career.” He goes on to reveal that the public’s perception of him takes a backseat to his own happiness in making career decisions...
...recruiting drive. Led by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian operative who directs many of the foreign jihadists, the Iraqi insurgency has attracted Islamic terrorists from around the world. But even without the provocation of Iraq, there's no reason to assume the terrorist threat to the U.S. would disappear. "Whether we pull out of Iraq or not," says a U.S. counterterrorism official, "al-Qaeda will still want to hit us where it hurts: in the homeland...
Wildcatting as he knew it, however, had started to disappear. In the 1970s, wildcatters flocked to places like Idaho, the Dakotas and Appalachia, but left the big plays to the majors. Oil exploration had moved into the open ocean, and the high costs shut out most independents. But while other wildcatters became investors or consultants or began specializing in "strip wells" that draw oil out from nearly depleted wells, Van Dyke decided to go for broke, launching a bid to become an international deepwater wildcatter in the North Sea in 1973. The gamble paid off with another modest find...
...Brazilian case, say the debate has dragged on for so long that they not only want subsidies to be cut but also need compensation for export-earning losses. "Africans are in a situation that if they don't do anything, it's possible that the cotton sector will disappear," says ministerial adviser K?b?...