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...even if this is second-tier Pynchon, it's still entertainment of a high order. It was only a matter of time before he would write a private-eye novel. Each of his books has been built around a character - or two or 12 - on a quest into the heart of a mystery that is never quite solved. The difference here is that Pynchon finally makes one of those characters a licensed gumshoe, albeit one with an incongruous hippie backstory. "Doc" Sportello is an ambling longhair with links to the surfer world and an appetite for controlled substances that would...
...experiment - makes no sense, doesn't matter, this is a horror movie - is one he somehow survives, making him a figure of veneration to a small cult believing he can cure all ailments. That's the hope of Father Hyun's feeble school chum Kang-woo (Shin Ha-kyun), who lives with his termagant mom and his strangely silent, sullen young wife Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin). What the family doesn't know is that the experiment has turned the good father into a vampire. The condition's benefits - he can bend lamp posts, scale high walls - don't always...
Welford, the spokesman for the District Attorney's office, said that prosecutors believe these are the three individuals that were involved in the shooting, but that investigators are continuing to look into the matter. Welford said that the three men were "known to each other," but he would not speculate further on their relationship before the shooting...
...overweight would be better off at a lower weight," Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at Harvard's School of Public Health, told the New York Times in early July. "There's been this misconception, fostered by the weight-is-beautiful groups, that weight doesn't matter. But the data are clear." NAAFA's public-relations director, Peggy Howell, says her group doesn't encourage anyone to lead an unhealthy lifestyle but recognizes that for some people weight loss isn't possible. "We don't encourage people to get fat," Howell says. A 2008 Yale University study suggests weight...
...they can work together, will be able to control parliament and form a government. "The results will have a long lasting effect of sustaining democracy in Moldova and in other parts of the region," says Ursu. "It was the frustration of not being able to challenge a government no matter how undemocratically it behaves that led people to streets in April...