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...this ghastly person. His slogan was "Praying for Death." He'd say that every morning he'd wake up and pray for death, and it would just keep coming. He'd get delighted when he received a phone call about a shotgun suicide. I remember thinking he was this mean, horrible character. And then the same thing happened to me. I was trying to write a book that's potentially going to be earning money off of people dying...
...tall is Danny DeVito? KGB: Danny DeVito is 5 inches tall. His birth name is Daniel Michael DeVito Jr., born Nov. 17, 1944. Thx! (Response time: 3 minutes) Q: 5 inches? Don't you mean 5 feet? KGB: My apologies. Danny DeVito is 5 feet tall. He was in the movie Romancing the Stone. Thx. (Response time: 3 minutes...
...Absolutely no lay-offs will take place in the HMS Genetics Dept. as a result of technological advances,” wrote Cliff Tabin, chairman of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, in an e-mail statement. “Indeed new technology will probably mean we need to hire new people to run advanced machines in our cores over time. However we are set up far differently from the Broad...
...that "it is time for Britain to invest in snow preparedness." More than three quarters of respondents believe that snowfalls like this one are so rare - this week's fall was the biggest in 18 years - that buying additional equipment would be a waste of money. That doesn't mean they're happily enjoying the snow with their more carefree compatriots. "It is odd how those who wanted to be at work got there anyway," commented one respondent. "A national 'duvet day' at a time of crisis ... is pathetic," griped another...
...Minister for Climate Change Penny Wong told the media the heat wave was "consistent with climate change, and all of this is consistent with what scientists told us would happen." But some readers remained skeptical. "One swallow does not make a summer?a few stinking awful days doesn't mean the climate is changing either," one person emailed to the Canberra Times. It was not clear where in Australia he lived...