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...happened to be searching for a mother lode of soul, New Jersey probably isn't the first place you'd look. But if you take the Garden State Parkway south from New York City and exit in the town of Pleasantville, after a few turns you'll find a squat, beige building with a sign outside that reads DARKCHILD STUDIOS. The immediate vicinity seems intensely, iconically suburban--there's even a crossing guard out front with a hand-held stop sign--but as it turns out, Pleasantville is a good deal funkier than its name might suggest...
...current fragmented state, the growing, publicly available map--obtained at a cost of $250 million to date, he says--has led scientists to a host of disease genes. It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine...
...which the players are awarded points for spotting rare forms of the elusive mullet. This excitable pair of Harvard frosh recently embarked on a pilgrimage of sorts, traversing the fertile mullet heartland between Washington D.C. and North Carolina. While on their quest, Malliaris and Hendry uncovered the fabled mother lode of mullets on the grounds of a discount store selling "tons of cigarettes...
...blame if something happens. But his top aides came away from their Monday confab with more questions than answers. They've developed a bad case of nerves since a suspicious Algerian was arrested at the Washington State-Canada border two weeks ago. But they have uncovered no mother lode of hard information about his plans. "You don't know what's true," says a senior intelligence official. "But the political price of making a mistake in judging is so high." Is the chief threat lurking abroad or at home? Is Osama bin Laden masterminding a spectacular millennial blast, or would...
...just our puny way of kicking out at an industry that manufactures a product so completely irresistible to so many of us: the celebrity. And in the 29-year-old Damon, the star factory has found a mother lode of raw material: charm, good looks, an even temperament, smarts, a relish for hard work, devotion to his mom. But if it makes you feel any better, Matt Damon feels your pain. He didn't used to be him either...