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Still, Fonda (who once commented on his famed '60s performances: "You can only ride so many motorcycles and smoke so many joints"), is always expanding his repertoire. He stars in a children's film, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, scheduled for release next year. Also awaiting release is South of Heaven, West of Hell, also starring his daughter Bridget Fonda, Vincent Gallo, Vince Vaughn, Dwight Yoakam and Billy Bob Thornton. And in last year's memoir Don't Tell Dad, Peter Fonda recollects...
...Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Primark Decision Economics, sees the Internet as having unleashed powerful competitive forces ?- new efficiencies in the way corporations do business ?- that may have changed the rules an awful lot. "The Internet structural change is a very big one, in the class of the railroad, the airplane, the automobile or the printing press," he says. "It should increase productivity growth and lower product prices. It could be the wild card for an inflationless prosperity." In other words, increased competitiveness among U.S. corporations with Net-connected companies around the globe could make the business world...
Ramirez haunts the railroads. His first known Texas victim, Dr. Claudia Benton, was found 100 yds. from railroad tracks in West University Place, an affluent community in Houston. She had been sexually assaulted. All the others lived near or were found along the web of tracks surrounding Houston, one of which leads to San Antonio. Ramirez, says Cox, has a "fascination" for train travel. Ramirez is 38 or 39, and was first arrested when he tried to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. But he returned again and again. Ingenious enough to be issued a voter-registration card and driver...
...Dominguez, near the international bridge on the border, indicating he'd fled into Mexico. Yet his suspected depredations also point north of Texas. Last week investigators were dispatched to Gorham, Ill., where George Morber, 80, and his daughter Carolyn Frederick, 52, were found beaten to death. They lived alongside railroad tracks. Ramirez is also wanted for questioning in the 1997 assault and murder of Christopher Maier, 21, a University of Kentucky student, who was slain as he was walking with his girlfriend near tracks in Lexington, Ky. The woman was beaten and raped but survived...
...short, skinny, bespectacled 18-year-old kid from Hong Kong traveled to America and declared himself to be John Wayne, James Dean, Charles Atlas and the guy who kicked your butt in junior high. In an America where the Chinese were still stereotyped as meek house servants and railroad workers, Bruce Lee was all steely sinew, threatening stare and cocky, pointed finger--a Clark Kent who didn't need to change outfits. He was the redeemer, not only for the Chinese but for all the geeks and dorks and pimpled teenage masses that washed up at the theaters...