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...life before him. If you bring him back I promise that I’ll never ask for anything else as long as I live.” The sky darkens and another huge wave crashes onto the beach. When it recedes the little boy is sitting on the sand, rumpled but unhurt. The grandmother runs over, hugs him, looks at the sky and shouts...
...were, as third wavers never tire of pointing out, just a wee bit on the puritanical side--washing down their tofu with Celestial Seasonings and constantly harping on the danger of date rape. So if you're 17 and want to express your grrrl-ish toughness, while simultaneously kicking sand in Mom's face, what better way than to go out and get "roofed" on a pint of cranberry vodka? Just as the daughters of suffragists became the cigarette-smoking flappers of the '20s, the rebellious daughters of second-wave feminists may help account for the recent rise of binge...
...Koreans call it "the gate-crasher of spring." Every year, huge storms of fine yellow sand, churned up by winds in the Gobi Desert, swirl across northeastern China and descend on the peninsula, obscuring visibility and dusting everything in yellow. Last week's storm-2002's first-was Korea's worst in at least 40 years. Dust concentrations were 20 times normal in parts of Seoul. Worse still, some scientists now fear the crud clouds are picking up toxins, such as cadmium and arsenic, as they cross China's northeastern industrial belt. The pollutant payload is small but "very, very...
...Rookie doesn’t quite avoid such genre pretensions; this is the film’s weakness. The prologue sequence, for example, involves blowing sand, sepia tones, saints and a baseball flying into the sunset. You may want to leave, but please, don?...
...students who really know how to have a good time will spend their Spring Break on the eminent beaches of—in alphabetical order—Acapulco, the Bahamas, Cancun and the Dominican Republic. The sand might be white, the waves crashing and the breeze blowing at any one of these balmy vacation destinations, but no one makes the trek there, or to Key West or Jamaica, to take pleasure in the salty beach air. More likely, the only pleasure anyone gets from these beaches is by finding a spot to nurse a hangover and attempt to forget...