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...light: when the couple landed in Hawaii, the U.S. Customs Service confiscated Pampers boxes stuffed with jewelry, including a gold crown and three gem-encrusted tiaras (not to mention $200,000 worth of gold bullion and $1 million in Philippine pesos). And that's just what they managed to load onto the C-141 cargo plane to Hawaii: back at Malaca?ang Palace, officials discovered a stash of jewelry estimated by the government to be worth $310 million, while a further $13 million in gems (which Marcos has admitted were hers) were confiscated from a Greek national attempting to leave...
Just try to stop him—at your own risk. Dawson has operated as part of a Harvard package that leads defenders guessing, running against pass coverage and passing when opponents load up the line...
...cost-averaging into the traditional energy sector. And be warned that prices could fall a lot farther than 10% if the world economy weakens. Which wouldn't be a bad thing, for consumers or investors. The next global slowdown will be the time to back up the truck and load up on a diversified mix of energy stocks or energy-oriented stock mutual funds for the long term...
...seems hardest to defend the film from the last group of detractors: those who complain that it panders to the West in the hopes of repeating Lagaan's success abroad. The movie does come with a full load of Orientalist clich?s. There are far too many elephants, dancing girls, and cows walking about, and the British officer gets a suspicious amount of screen time, suggesting that this film was carefully calculated to do well with audiences in Britain and America. But for all its stereotypes and implausibilities, this is a movie worth defending: because if everyone attacks The Rising...
HOMEOPATHY: A LOAD OF HOOEY? Lots of alternative therapies are effective, but according to the journal Lancet, homeopathy isn't one of them. In a review of 220 studies, researchers found it was no better than a placebo. --By Sora Song