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...decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or two. But an airplane crashes into their house above, they mistake its rumbles for a bomb, and they end up staying in the underground lair for 35 years. In 1997, Calvin and his wife decide they need to refuel on supplies and send Adam, their born-in-captivity son (Brendan Fraser), outside to bring home a non-mutant, Pasadena girl for breeding purposes. He meets Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and begs her to help him. And so the story goes about manchild Adam's mission to find a wife...

Author: By Susan Yeh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FIZZLES out | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...what about those who don't plan ahead? When working out or studying, many men choose Gatorade or Powerade to refuel their systems, while women reach for the ever-popular Poland Spring water. Maybe it's the convenient individually-sized bottles, but Edith Y. Chan '98 believes that "they advertise a lot, so I feel they're trustworthy. They're also less expensive than other brands...

Author: By Sonia Inamdar, | Title: My Bottle and Me | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...face the relatively luxurious British social security system with its dole and housing benefits than an Iraqi jail or Saddam's firing squad." The hijackers took over a Sudanese jetliner initially headed to Amman, Jordan and forced the pilot to fly to London after a stop in Cyprus to refuel. Gibson says it is still unclear whether the British government will jail them, grant them asylum, or do both. -->