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...past 30 years, Stephen Williams, Pea body Professor of American Archaeology and Technology, has led the Lower Mississippi Survey, a project of excavations in the valley stretching from the mouth of the Ohio River in the Gulf of Mexico--an area Williams calls the richest archeological site on the continent...
...downturn has stoked social unrest in a country already notorious for its extremes of wealth and poverty. Half the population receives only 12.6% of the national income. By contrast, the richest 10% get 51% of the income. Most laid-off workers are receiving no more than one month's severance pay, and the government provides no unemployment benefits. In April, thousands of laid-off metalworkers shouting, "Queremos empregado!" (We want employment), stormed through the streets of São Paulo, looting shops and supermarkets...
...series Taxi, uses that show's mixture of urban gallantry and paranoia in his first feature. He has given Williams his best chance to vent his singular, hysterical style in a movie and provided Matthau, stooped and shuffling under the burden of his sanity, with his richest part in years. The film's moral is spoken by Donald's fiancée. Eyeing the arsenal that Donald thinks he needs to walk tall, she protests, "I don't believe in surviving. I believe in living." People who agree with her should see The Survivors in order...
Webster is the richest, greediest man in the world. How rich? He has his own MX missile; he schusses down a private ski run atop his skyscraper penthouse; he has never worn the same pair of socks twice. How greedy? He almost corners the coffee-bean market by directing one of his satellites to beam down a hurricane on Colombia (where, he notes wryly, "coffee is one of the two major crops"). Then, when Superman foils his scheme, Webster uses Gus' computer skills to discover virtually all the elements of Kryptonite. It is when Gus improvises the last unknown...
...Texas Business Hall of Fame screened a list of 200 potential candidates before coming up with the honorees. One rule is that hall members may not be actively involved in their businesses on a day-to-day basis. That excluded two of the state's richest and best-known businessmen: Bunker and Herbert Hunt...