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Slevin (Josh Hartnett) arrives in New York City with a broken nose and no wallet and unable to find the friend in whose apartment he's staying. On the upside, there's food in the cupboard and a funny, flirtatious woman (Lucy Liu) across the hall. On the downside, he gets abducted, in a towel and slippers, by a pair of thugs, and we begin to wonder just how ironic the title Lucky Number Slevin is going...
...According to his mother, Seth had had a nosebleed the day before that stopped after a few minutes. Though he had never had a nosebleed before, they told me that he was a frequent nose picker, a habit his mother and grandmother assured me they had tried to fix. Seth?s father also told me the little boy had had a fever three days earlier, a temperature of 101.3 that hadn?t been elevated since. Other than that, there seemed to be no worrisome symptoms: he was acting and playing normally, wasn't congested nor did he cough...
...fitting that Gossage carries the torch for spurned stars of yesteryear. He courted controversy throughout his 22 years in the big leagues, most famously as a New York Yankee. He once called Yankee owner George Steinbrenner "the fat man upstairs" and another time punched a teammate on the nose during a bathroom brawl. In 1986, after San Diego Padres owner Joan Kroc, the widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, banned beer in the clubhouse, Gossage famously remarked, "She is poisoning the world with her hamburgers, and we can't even get a lousy beer...
...from a tree last week and survived. Turns out her feat--which a local TV station caught on video and was also aired online--wasn't unusual. Cats take the plunge so often that "feline high-rise syndrome" was coined in 1976 to describe survivors' injuries (often a bloody nose and chest or lung trauma). "We have on record cats surviving after falling from 32 stories," says James Richards, director of Cornell University's Feline Health Center. How? A cat instinctively rights itself in midair, then spread-eagles to maximize drag and diffuse the landing impact over its whole body...
...mainland. Chen called the body and its governing guidelines, established in 1990, "absurd products of an absurd era." But the truth is that it was a dormant outfit that a fair number of Taiwanese hadn't even heard of until Chen closed it as a way of thumbing his nose at Beijing. Then, as if for emphasis, Taiwan's Defense Ministry last week proposed removing some run-down statues of Chiang Kai-shek, former KMT leader and ruler of Taiwan for three decades, from military bases across the country. Cue more opposition outrage...