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...asked Rusty, 29 and from Montana, if he knew where the next "Survivor" series was to be held. He'd heard rumors of Africa or a South American rain forest. Was he worried about existing in a tropical jungle? "Nah. I survive L.A. And that's a real jungle." I wondered if he was your standard unemployed actor, but discovered that he just looked like one. He was a salesman for a trucking company. Apparently life is equally tough for those in L.A. who are not actors...
...threw enough dust into the air to block out some sunlight and slow down the rate of warming. That effect has dissipated, and the heating should start to accelerate. Moreover, the IPCC noted, many countries have begun to reduce their emissions of sulfur dioxide in order to fight acid rain. But sulfur dioxide particles, too, reflect sunlight; without this shield, temperatures should go up even faster...
...clothes always seem to grow over a trip and I can never quite fit them back into the suitcase they arrived in, a bit worried about the fact that somehow I didn't open my books over the past nine days, still drying off from the cold Chicago rain (why? why is it not spring yet?!) and of course compiling and scheduling a list of all the signs on the Northwest Tollway (I-90) that need to be inspected this summer...
...Good episode. Week 10 opened in full-on doomed-romance mode, our eight remaining castaways rain-besotted, running out of rice, and just waiting around for another Kucha to take it on the chin. Keith was spouting, Rodger and Tina were bonding, Nick had a bumpy tongue. And then the reward challenge arrived - which of course involved a sumptuous buffet, somewhere - and the Baramundians needed to split into four guy-girl teams. Just pick 'em out of a hat like good summer campers, right...
...strict labor rules make employers reluctant to hire - and Germans aren't eager to part with their deutschemarks even in the best of times. "It's saving for a rainy day," says Neil Parker, market strategist at the Royal Bank of Scotland. "But it's going to have to rain pretty hard before Germans consume...