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...scream, but we may have yet another mess to worry about: an insurance crisis. And while there's no reason at this stage to think it will rival the savings and loan crisis, never underestimate the worldwide insurance industry. It's tightly interconnected, and nothing about it is small...
...television camera closes in on his solemn face, film director Oliver Stone instructs viewers to hold their breath. "Every instinct will start to shout and scream for air," says Stone, comparing the feeling to the "choking of the planet" from global-warming gases. "O.K., breathe," he commands seconds later. "Remember, you just ran out of air. And we're running out of time...
...25th book will probably follow the same course. Here Bradbury resurrects the place he knew as an entry-level scenarist. He calls it A Graveyard for Lunatics; the more familiar name is Hollywood. The narrator is hired to write a wide-scream horror movie. To his delight, he learns that a boyhood friend has been signed to create the most dreadful monster in film history. Searching for inspiration, the buddies visit a cemetery across the street from Maximus Films. Abruptly, the body of a long-buried mogul passes in review. Is it an apparition? What about the hideous beast that...
...from one-third of 1% of the value of each stock trade to 5% of a transaction's value, which would raise an estimated $60 billion over five years. "It's an easy grab," admitted a securities lobbyist fighting the plan. "It raises billions from people who don't scream and may not even feel...
Even on relatively slow news days, the front-page headlines of Manila's 23 daily newspapers scream of worsening terrorism, new coup threats, prolonged power brownouts, mounting protests against U.S. military bases. Last week they were shrieking at a fever pitch. The U.S. Government had discovered that a Peace Corps volunteer working on the island of Negros had been kidnaped in June by communist insurgents; just days earlier, officials in Manila had denied that such Americans were at risk and had lambasted Washington for suspending the Philippines' Peace Corps program. Then came the even more riveting news that...