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...astray but quickly recovers, and the price he pays is small: his nose grows, but there are no burned feet. And when the cricket gets in his face, it isn't squashed; it sings Give a Little Whistle. For 62 years - ever since Walt Disney brightened up the grimmer corners of Carlo Collodi's 1883 classic The Adventures of Pinocchio - there have been two competing versions of the little wooden guy's story: one headquartered in Italy, where people rightly regard the original as a work of dark genius; and one in the U.S., where generations raised on Disney...
...time passes, things look grimmer for the Smarts. The number of children killed after being abducted is small--about 100 a year, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. But most of these are killed within three hours of being taken. On Friday, when Elizabeth would have graduated, her school was covered with pale blue ribbons, tied to all the fences and lining the aisle she would have walked to collect her diploma...
...about the CRASH, which killed the PILOT and two others, point to terrorism. Moments before hitting the 30-story Pirelli building, the pilot reported trouble with his landing gear to air-traffic controllers. If MECHANICAL FAILURE was not to blame, investigators speculated that he might have taken ill. A grimmer hypothesis was offered to an Italian newspaper by the pilot's son: that his father, in financial trouble, had committed suicide...
...news out of the democratic people's republic of korea hasn't been great for, oh, five decades or so. And lately it's only getting grimmer amid drought, floods, widespread human misery and the ever-removed antics of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. But Pyongyang's propaganda machine?now on the Net!?bravely soldiers on, reporting five or six major news events every day. (Recent samples: "Many Goat Farms Appear," "Rare Squid," "Reception Given at Russian Consulate General.") Now comes a ray of hope?no, make that a beacon of an incontrovertibly glorious future! In August, Kim visited...
...biggest stock markets - for four days. The prices of oil, gold and bonds were sent soaring. The London FTSE, the Paris CAC and the German DAX all took double-digit losses in the first few days. By the end of September the news crossing the wires was grim and grimmer: corporate profits and consumer sentiment plummeting, unemployment shooting upward...