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...music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck's runaway mouth gets them in trouble, and his wit gets them...
Researchers admit their evidence is at best suggestive. However, they calculate that the ocean could have lasted hundreds of millions of years before boiling away in Venus' runaway greenhouse effect, certainly enough time for life to have come -- and gone...
Ordinary cats have nine lives, but Socks, pet of presidential daughter Chelsea Clinton, seems to be well on the way to immortality. Thanks to a runaway merchandising blitz of Socks memorabilia, the white-footed feline's likeness is now found on books, stuffed animals, buttons, earrings, T shirts and note cards in stores and trade shows around the U.S. In Portland, Oregon, Pam Gibson of the Cat's Meow store, left, calls Socksmania "a phenomenon." % The hottest items, she says, are pictures of Socks at the White House and MOVE OVER MILLIE T shirts. Bloomingdale's, the upscale New York...
...might have been than to remember exactly the way they were. Is Beatrice John's mother who dies after a miscarriage, as the narrator of "Blue Wet Paint Columns" tells us, or is she his lonely step-mother, as we read in "The Search for Water"? Is Martin a runaway boy who shows up at John's Kansas house one day, or a grade school teacher in New York? An obscenely rich club-hopper or a Midwestern night watchman who barely can scrape together enough for rent...
...spite of the good news about the economy as a whole, most large corporations prefer almost any alternative to hiring new full-time employees. Not only do they have painful memories of the recent recession, but they now face runaway costs for health care and other benefits that often make it prohibitively expensive to expand their work force. The same companies are being squeezed even tighter by global competition, which has made cost cutting and downsizing -- on a permanent basis -- a way of life...