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...his 1939 novel Ask The Dust, John Fante looked at the folks around him in Los Angeles and saw "faces with the blood drained away, tight faces, worried, lost. Faces like flowers torn from their roots and stuffed into a pretty vase, the colors draining fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Love, Death and L.A. | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...Maya, the subtitles, it won?t even matter in this film," because of its fast-paced action, said Gibson, as thick black kiln smoke wafted across the set. Then he picked up the bullhorn again and approached another crowd of extras covered like ghosts in thick white limestone powder. "Try to think of what makes you most afraid!" he shouted.? "My mother!" an extra shouted back. Gibson smiled and nodded at the crew: "I told you this film was going to be very, very different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mel Gibson's Oscar Moment, in Maya | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...just $8 billion and was supposed to have been up and running before the 1980s were out. Currently, the outpost is still incomplete, it has returned not a lick of real science and is projected to cost up to $100 billion. The shuttles, which were advertised as a cheap, fast, reliable way to get to and from near-Earth orbit, cost $400 million every time they fly, take months to prep for a mission and have a devastatingly poor safety record, as two lost ships and 14 lost lives attest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA's Budget Blunder | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...able to distinguish those situations where abdominal pain may be related to more trivial conditions...from those situations where surgical treatment is needed like acute appendicitis.” Though Pedrosa said the ultrasound remains the first tool used in diagnosis because it is fast and harmless to the fetus, when the ultrasound is inconclusive, MRIs may provide a clearer picture. “The still ultrasound is the imaging test of choice in the evaluation of pregnant patients with abdominal pain, because it’s fast, relatively inexpensive and it doesn’t use radiation...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: MRI Finds Prenatal Woes | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...We’ve got the hippies in front of us?” one contestant asked her partner as they sped down a road to an airport. “How the hell did they run that fast? They haven’t been smoking pot for a while, I guess,” she concluded...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Grad, Art Imitates Life’s “Amazing Race” | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

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