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...going to play Moss?’” Brolin says.Shortly after “Grindhouse” filming ended, Brolin learned that he would, in fact, play Moss in a film adaptation from Academy Award winning duo Joel and Ethan Coen.In the story, Llewellyn Moss, a mild-mannered Texan welder, discovers a large cache of drugs and money at the horrific desert site of a drug deal gone bad. He chooses to take the money and must evade the pursuit of a terrifying man guided only by a twisted moral code. TROUBLING PARALLELBut two days after being cast...
...books. It also disclosed that it's holding almost $135 billion in securities for which there are no observable market prices--meaning that their valuation is determined by guesstimation--and is involved with another $167 billion in off-the-books CDOs and special investment vehicles. The normally mild-mannered stock and credit analysts who follow the firm reacted with downgrades and criticism--their main complaint being that Citi had been so slow in fessing up to problems that they fear more to come...
Most cases of MRSA outside health-care settings are mild, appearing as red, swollen pustules on the skin, and can be controlled with antibiotics other than ones from the penicillin family. These cases are usually not the so-called invasive infections--those that enter the bloodstream and can damage tissues. Last month, however, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention released a report on invasive MRSA estimating that in 2005, there were 32 cases per 100,000 people in the U.S.--a troublingly high number--and that 14% of these occurred in people with no documented history...
...month researchers at Wake Forest University released the first large, independent study of injuries associated with Tasers, finding that they are relatively harmless and pose minimal risk of injury. In a review of nearly 1,000 cases, 99.7% of those subjected to a Taser had no injuries or only mild ones, such as scrapes and bruises. Even so, Dr. William Bozeman, one of the study's lead researchers, was quick to add that the Taser isn't "a magical sort of thing that can't hurt anybody ever...
...said MacKinnon, who was invited by the Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and by the College’s Women’s Center. MacKinnon said that though the American public was horrified by photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the material was actually mild by pornographic standards. She argued that the same images, framed in a pornographic context, would never have inspired the same horror. “The notion that everything that happens in pornography is consensual is just that: an assumption,” she said. Contrary to that assumption, MacKinnon said, pornography...