Word: franticness
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...regiomontanos, as Monterrey residents are known, crowded into the upscale bistros and cafés of San Pedro. Then the rumors began circulating on cell phones and BlackBerrys: gunfights had broken out again in local restaurants and nightclubs. Almost immediately the cafés emptied, and the streets were clogged with frantic regiomontanos racing in their Lexuses and BMWs to save their kids from the cross fire...
...many Americans, the Jan. 20 murder of four U.S. soldiers on a deserted road in southern Iraq might sound similar to countless other tragedies in a bloody, brutal war. There was a firefight, which killed another American; a brazen abduction; then a frantic chase leading to a heartless end. And yet from the start, the deaths of the five Americans were also shrouded in mystery. The attack took place in Karbala, a Shi'ite holy city of roughly 1 million people that had been one of the safest in Iraq for U.S. troops. It happened in plain sight of Iraqi...
...would be a stretch to call these two frantic studs characters, at least in the Pixar sense. Nor are Aachi and Ssipak standard comic figures like Archie and Jughead; they're more Itchy and Scratchy - excuses for sadistic, sumptuously choreographed mayhem. The best movies may create story and characters that involve, ennoble or devastate the viewer; but not every movie has to. This one is not humane; it may not even be human. After a while, its glamour and vigor can get wearying. But, s--t, is this movie great to look at, from a safe, sanitized distance...
...MAJOR EMBARRASSMENT IN U.S. rocket research occurred in October 1957 when Russia beat the U.S. in the cold war space race by launching the satellite Sputnik. Thanks to the frantic efforts of U.S. officials to match that feat, aerospace engineer and longtime Caltech professor Homer Stewart was hired to help develop a similarly impressive craft. With guidance from Stewart-- who later worked on early planning for the Apollo mission--the U.S. sent into orbit its first successful satellite, Explorer I, in January 1958. Stewart...
...every year people wait until the last minute to leave, causing massive logjams on roads and highways. Frantic shoppers fight for supplies and hoard gasoline. One in three Florida residents does not even have a survival kit, and 10% do not know if they live in a mandatory evacuation zone. Nearly 15% of those polled in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal states said they would refuse to leave their home even if they were ordered to evacuate...