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...Appealingly sturdy in Casino, Craig is near-mute here. This Bond is a crippled titan, "blinded by inconsolable rage," as M gently puts it; he shows as much emotion as a crash-test dummy and endures nearly as much damage. But since MI6 currently has more turncoat agents than a Whack-a-Mole game, and Bond is the functioning spy M can trust, he's obliged to save the world on his own, while other branches of the government want him captured or killed...
Rumors that GM is preparing to file for bankruptcy swept through the company's plants this week. "I'm hearing they're not going to be able to meet payroll by spring," one employee at a GM assembly plant near Detroit said. GM, however, said speculation it was nearing bankruptcy is not true. "Bankruptcy would not be in the interests of our employees, stockholders, suppliers or customers, and we believe speculation about a possible filing is exaggerated and unconstructive," GM said in a statement...
...election draws near, undecided voters are increasingly under pressure to select their choice—or have they already made up their minds? In many cases, the answer is yes, according to data collected by Harvard psychology professor Mahzarin R. Banaji, in conjunction with professor Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and professor Tony Greenwald of the University of Washington. The three scientists are collaborating on “Project Implicit,” a research Web site which allows visitors to complete various tests in order to gauge their subconscious associations. The tests cover a wide variety...
...Delta passengers flying economy class to New York City's Kennedy Airport can get a lift into town by helicopter for $45 - about the same price as a taxi ride. There are 27 flights daily from Monday through Friday, connecting passengers at JFK with the Downtown Manhattan Heliport near Wall Street or the East 34th Street Heliport in Midtown. The eight-minute U.S. Helicopter flight is free for business- and first-class customers; the offer is good on all tickets purchased between...
...plantations. Three of them were car bombs set off in its capital and largest city, Guwahati, according to R.N. Mathur, the state's director general of police. Those blasts did the most damage, killing 31 and injuring 147. The remaining six blasts hit smaller towns in lower Assam, near the Bangladesh border, and were smaller in scale, using explosives left on bicycles and motorbikes. Two of the bombs in Guwahati were set off near government targets: a police station, the office of the deputy commissioner of the state's civil service, but the one that did the worst damage...