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...They also have an agreeably low budget and their project has a serviceable plot device - three nerds, fiendishly set upon by a high school bully, hire a bodyguard to protect them. He turns out to be not the special forces vet he claims to be, but a homeless man - physically inept and cowardly to boot. The only thing Drillbit Taylor neglects is to make any sort of comic capital out of a basic situation that a lot of people - not all of them currently afflicted by acne - have endured in life. Mostly the kids (Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and David...
...being compiled. After a decade's study of cesarean birth, Professor Eugene Declercq of the Boston University School of Public Health cautions against giving too much weight to the cesarean-mortality connection, but concedes that "there is some evidence of higher maternal mortality rates in cases of cesareans to low-risk mothers," and suggests that a woman contemplating a C-section should ask herself why she should undergo major surgery "when she and her baby are healthy...
...enough. Now, a slowdown in global growth and a likely full-blown recession in the U.S. are about to stress-test China's manufacturing sector like never before - and could result in the shuttering of thousands of factories and cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Makers of low-end goods are already suffering. The Guangdong city of Huidong was home to 3,000 shoe factories at the beginning of 2007, but as many as 500 of them have closed over the past 15 months, says Li Peng, secretary of the Asia Footwear Association in Hong Kong. One-sixth...
...LINE: Underdog. With President Bush's low approval ratings, McCain may want a fresh start...
...Tibet (Voice For The Voiceless), and many young Tibetans feel they have spent all their lives dreaming of a country they've never seen. In Tibet, meanwhile, I remember-visiting in 1990, when the shadow of martial law hung over the capital-seeing soldiers on the rooftops of the low buildings around the central Jokhang Temple and tanks stationed just outside the city limits...