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...Dustin Tyler Caroll survived words like tergiversation, sorbefacient and obtenebrate to win the 58th annual National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. today. The 14-year old from Memphis will receive $5,000 and the ever-lasting admiration of wordsmiths everywhere. The winning word? Xanthosis, a term for a skin discoloration...
...week. Of course we are all afraid." And around the world, but especially in the U.S., people sensitized to Ebola's horrors by a spate of books and movies-Richard Preston's chilling best seller The Hot Zone; the TV movie Robin Cook's 'Virus'; the film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman-wondered nervously whether the disease would spread out of Africa...
...Kolwalskis' friends, Margaret J. Barker as Eunicel, the upstairs neighbor, and Dustin Thomason, Andres Colapinto and Zelman firmly underline the separation of Streetcar into female and male spaces which frequently clash. The aftermath is both destructive, and as Williams makes clear, part of the eternal human experience. It is, as Stella says, "One of those mysterious electric things that happen between people." The men's poker parties are so testosterone-pumped that they nearly steam the windows, while Barker's Eunice provides a maternal refuge from the consequences...
...reads the January-March Emergency Preparedness Digest. This headline overlaps a picture of a kneeling figure in a yellow-orange spacesuit, the kind sported by Dustin Hoffman in the recent film Outbreak. The suit on the cover has more of a bubble shaped helmet, though, like the little plastic helmets of Lego spacemen...
...Dustin Hoffman needn't worry, but football, baseball and advertising icon Bo Jackson wants to try acting. Jackson, who retired from football in 1990, said he realized during the baseball strike he wanted more time at home. He has signed with the William Morris agency but won't do sports roles. "I'm very serious about this," he said...