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...There's been something of a zombie revival lately. What do you attribute that to? I think partly it has to do with Brooks. But in a larger sense, people realize that zombies are likeable villains. You have sympathy for them. Zombies haven't chosen to be horrible. They've been infected, and now they're sort of doomed to walk the earth with this singular purpose of seeking out and infecting other people. So there's something tragic about them...
...those millions of sedans, pickups and SUVs have reached the end of their useful life. America is becoming a rolling junkyard; the average car is 9.4 years old, a new record, says Buscher. "Light trucks are 7.5 years old. They haven't been that old for 10 years," he adds. In two years, says an industry economist, 35 million cars now on the road will be at least 10 years old. There's not enough duct tape in America to hold that much junk together. Even if they don't conk out, keeping these beaters going becomes an increasingly expensive...
...growth then turbocharges to about 7%, if the past is any measure. Analysts insist that when you combine the replacement demand, scrappage rates, demographic changes and an economic recovery, there's a case to be made that North American demand will approach 16 million units within five years. "We haven't seen this kind of positive force in replacement demand for this amount for a while," says the auto economist. And thanks to growing overseas markets like China and Russia, where GM is well positioned, industry growth outside the U.S. will be even greater...
...Nieves Miguelita M. Yabao, from Demaguete City in the Philippines, came to the gambling mecca of Macau during that city's recent construction boom. But when she arrived, she discovered the job she had been promised working at a casino lounge was no longer available. "I haven't been able to send money home," she says. "Home has been sending me money and [my family say] there's no food...
...produced at least 700 sons (people stopped counting after that) and an untold number of daughters before he died in the early 17th century. One big reason today's powerful men don't have as many kids as they could is a relatively new invention that our reproductive instincts haven't had time to adapt to: contraception. (See pictures of classic stars' families at LIFE.com...