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...Marti Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) stops at a gas station near the Army base where her family is to spend the next month. In the restroom she is surprised by a large man who stifles her cries and whispers the warning "They get you when you sleep!" His words are like a bedtime story's ultimate threat: Keep listening to this tale, my child. If you nod off before the end, you could...
Long before the pods start wrapping their tendrils around sleeping bodies, Marti and her family are plenty estranged. The girl is annoyed with her father (Terry Kinney), resentful of her stepmother (Meg Tilly) and jealous of the woman's attentions to her own small son (Reilly Murphy). Why, Marti might almost believe -- as so many teens do of their own families -- that her broody brood is a pack of soulless zombies from another planet. But paranoia is merely another word for self-preservation; and Marti, who never hides her raw feelings, is just the person to detect the wholesale poddifying...
...Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find a job. "How am I supposed to live?" he asks bitterly. He earns his keep by "inventing," selling his jeans for 200 pesos, which fetched 40 lbs. of rice that he resold at quadruple the price...
...places with fewer neighbors and more space, nativescapers can be more adventurous. Marti Springer of Tallahassee, Florida, surrounded her home with native plants and planted parsley as a special caterpillar food. She asked the county not to spray her bog for mosquitoes because they are eaten by bats. Now she is planning to set up a bat house. "Bats should just love it here," she predicts...
...Bush Administrations have avidly sought the group's counsel. Not to be outdone, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton has traveled to Miami's Little Havana to seek Cuban-American money and Mas' support. In Congress the foundation was the major force behind the creation of Radio and TV Marti, the U.S.-sponsored propaganda stations beamed into Cuba. Outside the legislative realm, the group won the right to prescreen Cuban immigrants headed for the U.S. from third countries, and last year it rammed through regulations limiting the money Cuban exiles can send to relatives back home...