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Your story ought to have mentioned the greatest role of Cruise's diverse career: playing Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July. It was his riskiest character and another role for which he was nominated for (and should have won) an Oscar. JEANNIE FLINT Ocean Springs, Miss...
...Jean Auel's books have sold 34 million copies, but she can still walk into Starbucks without turning heads, and unlike a certain teen star with similar pull, she won't be caught prancing around with a snake on her shoulders. Skinning it with a flint knife would be more her style: Auel is the author of the Neolithic saga The Clan of the Cave Bear and its four sequels...
...Parents: Ayla's studly paramour Jondalar takes her home to his tribe, which lives on the site of the famous Lascaux cave paintings. Tension ensues--they had bitchy ex-girlfriends back then too--along with the occasional steamy sex scene and a short course in such lost arts as flint knapping. It's strangely absorbing: Auel's plodding prose won't win any Pulitzers, but there's a comfort to be had in her TiVo-free world, where people still get excited about a new way to make soap. Not that you will catch Auel pining for the old days...
Fast-forward to 2001. Korpi, who before retirement had roamed no farther from Flint, Mich., than Mexico and Canada, is an international troubleshooter who analyzes plant operations and car dealerships in places like Indonesia, Thailand and China. In November 1999, he hooked up with Jefferson Wells International, a firm that places auditors, accountants and other specialists in temporary assignments. The jobs are fulfilling and lucrative. Yet he manages to play plenty of golf. His GM buddies are amazed. So is Korpi: "I still can't believe I asked for the extra 15 days to think about...
...Eastern Baltic, for instance, foragers traded seal fat, amber, slate and flint for the farmers' pottery and grain. In coastal regions where oysters or other shellfish were plentiful, foragers felt no particular compulsion to take up the tasks of horticulture. Where farming did spread, he says, it was often through a process of gradual adoption by hunter-gatherers rather than continual migration of farmers. "Gene flow just doesn't correspond to the cultural patterns," he says...