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...women's magazine quoted in your story, hit the nail on the head when she said the youth of Italy "are comfortable with how things are." As a Filipino immigrant in Rome, I can only agree. The reluctance of young Italians to take risks is still something of a marvel to me. I work for a family whose 36-year-old son doesn't seem to want to move out of the house, saying his salary won't permit him to stand on his own. Not only is he older than I, but he also earns more. I send half...
...Superman - for the Addams Family?style house near Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he has lived since 1992. There he will knuckle down to his screen adaptation of Charles Burns' teen-horror, graphic-novel series Black Hole. Then, Gaiman must deliver the first of six issues of The Eternals, a resurrected Marvel Comics creation from the '70s. Oh, and he also needs to finish a book of short stories, as well as The Graveyard Book, a tale of an orphan child being raised by dead people. In his spare time, he may swing by Los Angeles to see how Roger Zemeckis' animated...
...pentagon, I guess.” The bedroom is even tinier, requiring Chen to climb over her desk to enter. Other highlights include the closet’s “distinctive Tetris-block shape” and the dumpsters outside the door. Dunster K-51: This geometric marvel features a hexagonal common room with two trapezoidal fire doors, a bedroom the size of an Apley closet, and ceilings so slanted that the rooms are virtually pyramidal. The lucky Yoshitaka Yamamoto and Andrew Q. Jing live directly under Dunster’s belltower and above ongoing construction; scenic Leverett Towers...
...China sends its first government delegation to the U.S. Years before, a Chinese official called America "an isolated place ... solitary and ignorant." But upon their arrival, China's emissaries marvel at American trains, steamships and weaponry...
...masters which left purple ink stains all over our hands. Occasionally we would watch a 16mm movie. I recorded my students' scores by hand in my red gradebook and painstakingly averaged these numbers at the end of the term. Today, in many high schools, teaching is now a technical marvel of computer labs, digital cameras, DVD players and laptops. Teachers e-mail parents, post messages for students on online bulletin boards,and take attendance with a flick of a mouse...