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...Nimitz's jets as targets, so far as the pilots could tell. Still, "every time you get in the jet and go over Iraq, you never know if this is going to be the day they're going to take a potshot at you," explained McLaughlin, 29, from Newport Beach, Calif...
...time off from the Rhode Island set of his next movie, Meet Joe Black (the film is "inspired by"--and not, a chorus of publicists insists, "a remake of"--Death Takes a Holiday), to talk about his new release, Seven Years in Tibet. Just down the lawn from a Newport-style mansion, we are sitting in the estate's opulent boathouse, itself a minimansion slung over a bay so ludicrously sun-dappled it could double for Golden Pond...
...shipyards of Newport News, Va., are no longer the powerful job creators they used to be, but there is still lots of work to be had. The government employs a substantial number; telemarketers and computer makers have moved in; the regional unemployment rate is just 4.2%. But then there's this other statistic: over the past year, the local food bank reported a 69% increase in people requesting help...
...Leona Martens, director of the Weld Food Bank in Greeley. In the Colorado town, those asking for help range from seasonal farmworkers sidelined by bad weather to families hit by sudden expenses like doctor bills or new car batteries. Says Barbara Mocnik, executive director of a food bank in Newport News: "The job market is there. The income isn't." Many of the new part-time jobs in Newport News pay so little that they cannot cover basic expenses...
...Strickland, 39, makes $25,000 a year. But last year he hurt his back and temporarily left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny," he says. Friends at a food pantry learned of his plight and sent groceries. Aledia Johnson of Newport News has a job as a corrections officer for Virginia. But she makes little more than minimum wage. Without the food pantry, she says, she would not be able to make ends meet. Says Johnson: "I have a mortgage to pay. I have to keep my car running. That's what...