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...Today—“It has a European air and a Latin flair,” one article exclaimed, along with “Girls in bikinis!”) is available in Buenos Aires for a mere pittance, a fraction of what it costs just to scrape by in the Big Apple. $1000 per month, more or less, for rent, fine dining, entertainment, shopping, the works. Buenos Aires, true enough, offers up all the comforts of home and more: wide Parisian boulevards, the world’s best beef, trendy boliches (or discotheques...
Jewaun Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, is lucky to be alive. A scrape on his left knee that he picked up riding his bike last October turned into a runaway infection that spread in a matter of days through the rest of his body, leaving his lungs riddled with holes. Jewaun managed to survive, but what worries doctors most about his near-death experience is that it's not an isolated case. The bacteria that infected his knee has become resistant to the most common antibiotics and is on the march across the U.S. It has spread...
...ones - are so relentlessly middle class in outlook, so often concentrated on the romantic anguish of people who are all lifestyle yet in some ways life-deprived. It is good - even sort of soul satisfying - to see them diverted from their top-of-the-line preoccupations and obliged to scrape along the bottom of the line. To see Robin Williams forced to deal with a family of raccoons that have unaccountably taken up residence in his RV?s oven is to see - symbolically at least - reality bite a hand more used to keypads than to gnawing nature...
...night, while my classmates were in Chile discovering extrasolar planets, I was in my pajamas discovering the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. While some students were interning at hospitals learning how to save lives, I was giving Little Johnny a Shrek band-aid to cover his knee scrape. The whole idea of even finding a “worthwhile” job was foreign to me: I was shocked to discover that the word “resume” was more than a button on my TiVo remote...
...four, came when Hafner cashed in on Johnson’s spin move.“Very fitting,” Donato said of his captain, who played with a bloodied jersey, a gash on his forehead that required stitches after the post-game press conference, and another scrape across his nose. “We knew we weren’t leaving here without some blood [spilt].”BLACK AND WHITEThe officials meted out 21 penalties worth a total 77 minutes Saturday in Lynah, including a five-minute major, three 10-minute misconducts, and a game misconduct...