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...Ocean's Thirteen (third in the series, after Eleven and Twelve), Clooney is again Danny Ocean, the gentleman heistmeister, and once more is surrounded by some pricey film flesh: Brad Pitt, also very easy on the eyes, and Matt Damon, and lots of the old gang in smaller roles: Bernie Mac, Andy Garcia, Carl Reiner, Don Cheadle, Elliott Gould, Casey Affleck. Julia Roberts took this film off, but Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin - last seen together 18 years ago, performing urgent stand-up sex in Sea of Love- are on board for star wattage and the nostalgia factor. Sounds eminently...
MEDICAL Only eight of 142 planned primary-health-care centers are currently open. And pricey equipment is misused or not used at all. At an Erbil hospital, for example, a high-tech medical-waste incinerator has been dormant since the staff trained to use it left the hospital...
...don’t really need it.”A program doling out 185 stipends at $1,000 each, in addition to the $60 it devotes to each freshman in the class to be spent at the discretion of the fellow, can slowly become a rather pricey endeavor. An estimated $300,000 has been put into the Peer Advising program, leading one to hope that with such a hefty price tag, modifications are in plan.Early plans to improve the program involve a new setup where PAFs will be matched by entryway to the freshmen’s academic...
...relying on the government to keep food safe, or we just don't think about it. For those who do start to think--nervous new parents, say, or McDonald's burnouts--there are more alternative grocers than ever. There are online purveyors of gourmet health foods (pricey), the old food co-ops (too political for me), and of course those farmers' markets, which--in spite of basic limitations like not being open every day--have grown larger and more sophisticated. (According to Samuel Fromartz's valuable 2006 history Organic Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew, there were...
...heads of Europe," says Bellow, the president and editorial director of TNP. "They are the natural form for the expression of ideas, especially those that are marginal, unpopular or against the grain of current moral taste." Not to mention that people increasingly don't have the desire to buy pricey, time-consuming books, a fact that has not escaped the notice of Bellow and Bernstein...