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Most horror films are escapist larks: they scare you, but are removed enough to be fun. This uncomfortable thriller, however, doesn’t let audiences off the hook. Mark Lewis (Boehm) is a psychopath, who thrives on killing women with a knife attached to a camera tripod so he can film their expressions as they die. Although Psycho is similarly themed—psychotic killer motivated by childhood humiliations—the killings are viewed through the killer’s camera, making the audience (or at least me) feel like the pleasure of watching horror movies isn?...
...sell the New SAT even as he defends the current test against its critics. He cannot say the College Board was wrong about the SAT all these years; nor can he say the board was wholly right about it. That's why he argues, on the blade of a knife, that the SAT is not becoming a typical achievement test but that it is coming "into a great balance" between a test of "critical reading, comprehensive writing and higher mathematics" and a test of "learned skills that you use to reason...
Breast implants are by no means the bra stuffing of our generation. Smuggling a couple socks in your bra is one thing—forking over thousands of dollars and going under the knife is quite another. The operation can cost anywhere from $3,000 to $9,000, and the implants do not come with a lifetime guarantee. Additional operations are almost always necessary in order to replace or remove implants due to problems such as deflation, capsular contracture, infection, shifting and calcium deposits...
...Centre, a 25-year-old private hospital in Penang. The most popularly requested operations: liposuction and tummy tucks. "Our customers enjoy the anonymity," says Marloes Giezenaar, Beautiful Holidays' managing director. "They fly in, recuperate around the pool, and fly out again without anyone noticing they've been under the knife." The company can also arrange postsurgery tours of Penang...
...here he was, someone who had known her son--and had seen her tears--and he was hiding. "Let's do it," he told me, adding later, "Now that we've had five years to grieve, it's time to make some positive changes." What about the butcher knife? "I felt silly about that anyway, even at the time," says Marsden. Nonetheless, as I was leaving their house, Padgett told me, "Now I guess I'll figure out if I can really stay in Casper. I keep thinking about Caesar. Jacta alea est." The die is cast...