Word: holidaying
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Directed by Mark Dindal Buena Vista Pictures 2 1/2 STARS After children are exposed to Disney’s “Chicken Little” this weekend, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were sudden requests for fowl to replace Fido as holiday pet gift of choice—or at least shrieks against drum legs at family dinner. Part incredible animation, part Zach Braff’s success at channeling lovable neuroticism, the title star of the production is the cutest animated animal ever—besting out the numerous big-eyed elephants, dogs...
...pocket. All were positive for HIV. But Henan health officials, reluctant to expose an outbreak that originated in a government-sponsored program, were slow to respond and refused to allow Gui to return to the villages. So he and three students sneaked back in during a long weekend holiday when he knew the gatekeepers might be off duty. For three days he went house to house, collecting samples, counseling patients and explaining how the virus is spread...
...Australia already allows European and American backpackers to do seasonal farm work. (Howard is on much firmer ground here; backpackers and guest workers are as different as apples and bananas.) But it is also true that Pacific Islanders are coming in greater numbers to Australia, some after a long holiday in New Zealand. While the money they wire back to the islands is no doubt welcomed by their families, these exiles are among their countries' best educated and most entrepreneurial citizens. A recent World Bank study found that more than half of all tertiary graduates from Fiji, Tonga and Samoa...
Reiner's cabaret sideline didn't start until she was 65. As a teenager, she haunted the jazz clubs of New York City. Billie Holiday once encouraged her to try singing and gave her the name of an agent. Reiner didn't think she was "special enough" to be a singer. Instead, she became a painter so she could work at home while raising children. In 1980 Anne Bancroft, a friend, gave her a small role in the film Fatso. "I took some classes in acting. I studied with Lee Strasberg and other people," Reiner says. "But I realized what...
Maybe after all we've seen and heard and feared this year, maybe after all we've learned, something will be different this holiday season. Maybe instead of buying Aunt Margaret a sweater, we'll buy a goat in her name from Heifer International to give a hungry family milk every day. Five dollars buys a mosquito net to guard a sleeping child. We'll find a mission. Raise the money. Raise an army. Save a life...