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...powered telecom firm in a fictional Silicon Valley locale. He followed Paranoia, his first New York Times best seller, with another, Company Man, about the old-line office-furniture industry. Finder had found his niche: John Grisham--like thrillers starring business people instead of lawyers. Finder is careful to explain, though, that his books rely on human emotion, not corporate scheming, for their drama. "They're not about high finance," he says. "They're a portrait of life in the corporate world, with regular people...
...topic of discomfort, can you explain one of your early film roles, in Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death? It's about radical feminists who are eating men in the jungle. I was the bumbling guide. I have fond memories of spending two months with my shirt off in the jungle. It was me and two babes. It was kind...
...Rice was rooting for fellow Birmingham native Taylor Hicks and will soon send him a congratulatory letter, says a State Department official. The Alabama connection helps explain why she has long been glued to the show: last year's runner-up Bo Bice is also a 'Bama boy, as was the winner of the second Idol competition, Ruben Studdard. But Condi is also part of nationwide Idolmania, as Tuesday night's competition drew some 32 million viewers - the biggest audience of the show's five seasons...
Cannes is also a Riviera resort, which means the town comes alive at night. Debonair folk in evening clothes stroll the Croisette until just before dawn. The discos (including the one directly under our hotel room) blast their pounding sounds nonstop to 3 or 4 a.m. (which may explain why the prose of this night owl is sometimes on the jagged side). Critics, who want to be part of both scenes, figure, hey, they'll sleep when they get back home - unless some film is kind enough to be terminally lulling...
...occurred 6.5 to 7.4 million years ago, a figure that was based on hominid fossils with distinctive human features dating from that period. “It suggests that there was gene flow after the development of human-like features, like upright walking,” Reich said. To explain the discrepancy between the appearance of human-like features and the later divergence date, the Broad researchers hypothesize that interbreeding and hybridization may have occurred. In short, early humans and chimps may have mated and produced offspring before the two species permanently split. These hybrid species may have developed into...