Word: parkes
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...Journey, which is emotionally sedate but determined to offer the full 3D experience, finds every excuse to send stuff jumping out at you: yoyos, rocks, dinosaur drool, the works. When Trevor spits water into the sink, you're the sink. The movie falls short only of theme-park 3D attractions, like Walt Disney World's "Honey, I Blew Up the Kids," where you get spritzed at the end. Journey also has a runaway-tram ride that will remind you of the one in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but which I'd like to think is a tribute...
...Indeed, even though inflation throughout the region is likely to continue to rise in coming months, no one is expecting an economic calamity. "We don't believe that Asia will run into another financial crisis," says Park Cyn Young, senior economist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila. Asian countries have large hard-currency reserves and relatively healthy banks, and so are far better prepared to absorb external shocks than they were during the region's last recession 10 years ago. "This time, [Asian policymakers] have learned their lessons and will be more alert...
...lake to avoid a 1928-style calamity, ravaging estuaries and draining the region's water supply. This spring the lake fell so low that 40,000 acres of its exposed bottom burned out of control, along with 40,000 acres of the perennially parched Everglades National Park...
They come from all races, religions and regions. Some support the war, some don't. What they have in common besides their mission is that they are bred-in-the-bone products of American pop culture. They quote South Park while rolling through the blasted countryside. They sing along to Avril Lavigne, compare combat to Grand Theft Auto and recite N.W.A. lyrics for inspiration. One of them--in a twist on a famous theory of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's--suggests American consumerism will pacify Iraq. "How else we going to make these hungry motherf___ers want...
...passed his state's bar exam without having attended a day of law school, former National Park Service director George Hartzog was anything but conventional. During his nine-year tenure as director, the South Carolina native brought nearly 70 new areas--some 2.7 million acres (1.1 million hectares)--under Park Service protection and often used daring techniques to secure funding, including shutting down parks two days each week when President Richard Nixon cut the budget in 1969. After a public outcry, the funding was restored, and Hartzog's legacy was secured as a dedicated proponent of the environment...