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...this speculation seems somewhat foolish once you've seen the Swedish film adaptation of Dragon Tattoo, subtitled in English and arriving in America this week after storming the European box office. The Lisbeth you know from the books (and an awful lot of you do know her - the paperback of Dragon Tattoo just finished its 36th week on the New York Times bestseller list) as a flat-chested Swedish girl with spiky hair, punk clothing, black lipstick and a bracingly bad attitude toward rules, has already been found. Her name is Noomi Rapace and she owns the part...
...hill country, attributes that help it attract desirable workers. For all these reasons, it hasn't been battered quite as hard as other cities by the recession; the unemployment rate was nearly 3 points below the national average at the end of last year. Still, the metro area has seen big job losses from major employers, including the computer maker Dell and semiconductor manufacturers like Freescale and Advanced Micro Devices. It's not hard to find the desperate stories here that you find throughout the rest of the country: the woman laid off from book publishing two years...
Earlier this month, divers took to the polluted waters of Hong Kong's Rambler Channel, searching for the body of a drowned 7-year-old boy. A week earlier, the boy and his mother, a 39-year-old divorcée and welfare recipient, were seen plunging 17 meters to the sea from the Tsing Yi Bridge, near the city's container port. The mother's body was quickly retrieved, but except for a red schoolbag, there was no trace of the boy until March 4. On that day, his body was finally hauled out of the water, and Hong...
...explain it,” freshman Brandyn Curry said. “I don’t know what happened. We just didn’t have it tonight. I don’t know what team that was out there. I haven’t seen that team all year...
Obesity used to be seen as a problem only for Americans, with their love of fast food and aversion to exercise. But over the past two decades, Europe's waistlines have been steadily expanding too. In fact, from 1990 to 2006, obesity levels in Europe tripled, according to statistics from the World Health Organization. Although they've yet to catch up with the 32% obesity rate in the U.S., Europeans have nothing to be complacent about. In Italy, nearly 10% of people are considered obese, and in the U.K., the figure is more than 24%, according to the latest...