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...could get people into theaters by telling them they're all gonna die. He's done it before. A past master of disaster, the German director devastated the planet in Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow; he wasted New York City in Godzilla and showed us the distant past was no safer in 10,000 B.C. This time Emmerich left billions of humans crushed in the convulsions of the earth and for good measure killed off the (African-American) President of the U.S. and the Pope. Give the people what they want...
...outperformed all other major global food businesses in the third quarter. A rally in sterling, meanwhile, could further add to the cost of boosting Kraft's bid. What's more, "we persist in our belief that neither Nestlé nor Hershey will willingly stand by and be marginalized into distant No. 3 and No. 4 positions in global confectionary," London-based analysts at investment bank Jefferies International wrote in a note to clients on Tuesday. A possible joint Nestlé-Hershey bid to break up Cadbury - with Pennsylvania-based Hershey taking the bulk of its chocolate business and Switzerland...
...this reason, distant viewers were even more removed from the estimated 15,000 soldiers and civilians who gathered under clear Texas skies to hear the prayers, hymns and speeches in person. While their grief was more hard-earned, their experience was more authentic. They waited for the beginning of the service in appropriate silence - a fact the television commentators could hardly stop talking about...
...schemes now afoot carry the danger of turning research into something that can be conducted without ever leaving the compass of one’s local bookstore—or even one’s desk. Surely the heyday of the academic as an explorer, an adventurer, traveling to distant libraries in search of rare and exotic books, has already passed. But must technology wipe away all vestiges of that former side to the vocation...
...rain shower is built into the cave walls. Carefully placed lighting and thoughtful details, like the words "Dear Guest" stitched in Portuguese on the bed linen, warm these ancient stone rooms - and make the fact that livestock used to have the run of the place all but a distant memory...