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...singing Dancing Queen. But she also spends a long part of the film in a strenuous simulacrum of pleasure. She has the laughs the way a consumptive has the coughs. You worry that when Streep dies and goes to Actor Heaven, the recording angel will say, "On this scale we have decades of transcendent performances, and on this scale, that Mamma Mia! thing. Begone...
...students themselves are becoming savvier consumers. As the industry moves toward more frequent editions of textbooks as well as ones that are tailor-made for different colleges - tactics Koch and other critics say is designed to suppress a large-scale market for used textbooks - many undergraduates are searching e-commerce and social-networking sites like Facebook for schoolmates who may be looking to sell the books they just finished using. And some try to save money by muddling through without any textbooks. For these cash-strapped students, says Nicole Allen, a consumer advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group...
...guitars and keyboards and started dressing sharp. Ahmed and scores of other singers found themselves fronting groups that were now playing home-cooked RnB and jazz, progressing within a few years to soul and funk, yet still clinging to their native Amharic language and the traditional five-note Arabic scale. Out in the audience, afros and bell-bottoms were worn; girls got grounded for wearing mini-skirts. "Just like in Europe, in America and in Swinging London," says Falceto. "It was the same fight between the ancient and the modern like everywhere else...
...broken out in the cargo hold of the jet, an ancient DC-9 en route to Atlanta from Miami, filling the cabin with smoke and probably asphyxiating the 110 passengers and crew members before they were swallowed by the swamp. Schiavo was disturbed not only because of the scale of the tragedy but also because she knew it might have been averted. Just three months earlier, Schiavo had warned the Federal Aviation Administration about ValuJet's awful safety record. But the FAA let the airline keep flying, despite Schiavo's concern and a recommendation from some of the agency...
...permitted to drive only on alternating days. Although police cars, emergency vehicles and taxis will be exempt, the government estimates that up to 50% of Beijing's 3.3 million vehicles will be cleared from the streets. "By July 20, not only the traffic control will be at ... full scale, [but] all the other controlling measures should in place," says Zhu Tong, an environmental-science professor at Peking University. "With all these controlling measures working at the same time, I am confident that the air quality in Beijing should be significantly improved...