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...Schalken and van Dinther's "Eiland" and Paul Hornschemeier's "Forlorn Funnies" aren't as easy to read as other comix. But they aren't meant to be. You need to put aside conventional notions of how comix can entertain and accept that the challenge of such works becomes the entertainment...
That's especially true of the large number of vehicles being redesigned or discontinued for 2003. From compact cars to popular sedans to luxury vehicles, they are available in just about every body type. If you are flexible enough in your choice of make and model to entertain one of these changeover cars, you can find a terrific deal. "It's not unusual to save a couple of thousand on a sticker price of $20,000 or $30,000," says Bob Brisco, CEO of CarsDirect.com...
...spirit of fair play to cowboy Jody Brown and his endangered breed, let's entertain two arguments in favor of eating meat. One is that it made us human. "We would never have evolved as large, socially active hominids if we hadn't turned to meat," says Katharine Milton, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. The vegetarian primates (orangutans and gorillas) are less social than the more omnivorous chimpanzees, possibly because collecting and consuming all that forage takes so darned much time. The early hominids took a bold leap: 2.5 million years ago, they were cracking animal bones...
...real heroes are at it around me, too. They jog and bike past me, either oblivious to or in spite of the incredibly welcoming target the bridge would present to any number of potential terrorists. They don’t go crazy and entertain the thought of shutting down the pedestrian walk and putting guns on the bridge’s towers, even thought it may very well prevent the unknown next disaster, what The Onion has cleverly dubbed “the July 19 attacks.” Either deliberately or as an instinctive form of mental self-defense...
...would be too bad if the ambiguity and sadness of "Summer Blonde" scared you off. Adrian Tomine won't entertain you with a lot of snappy tricks. He's on to something that other comix artists haven't captured - a slacker generation growing older but not wiser...