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...eccentricities, Timequake adheres to at least one Vonnegutian standby: make 'em laugh while you're showing them their Armageddon. It's not exactly a spoonful of sugar, but it does help the medicine go down...
...held for use after surgery. In another technique, doctors may use albumin, a protein found in plasma that is acceptable to many who refuse transfusions on religious grounds, to maintain or increase blood volume, or to manage an underlying medical condition. Says Shander: "They used to tell us, 'Give 'em a couple of bottles of blood--it won't hurt; it's good for what ails them.' Well, that might be easier, but I've learned to rely on less, with better results...
...pollute the Net with your ideas. Tell 'em Baratunde sent...
...been your castle, and it used to double as a piggy bank, until a classic late-'80s bust crushed the notion of housing as an investment. But the market is finally springing to life again, and fast. Remember those heady housing markets of the 1970s and mid-'80s? Forget 'em. Not returning anytime soon. But for the first time in a decade, home prices in most of the U.S. are rising fast enough to outstrip the inflation rate of about 2.5%. And there are many hot spots. The Midwest is seeing some of the biggest leaps, while house hunters...
...action-film stuff, including the big-vehicle-dangling-off-a-precipice scene from Spielberg's The Lost World. It works well for a while, thanks to Mimi Leder's bustling direction and to Clooney, who has a gift for eroticizing impatience. ("Women!" his stare says. "Can't live with 'em; they can't live without me.") Then the film finds sympathy for its villain and goes softly nuts with him. In the final chase everyone's IQ drops about 20 points...