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...talked for nearly an hour. Back at the hotel, I discovered that the tape had not worked. When the panic subsided, I replayed the conversation in my head, for in those fine days, my memory was still crisp. Reagan had said nothing of interest. Blank tape, empty notebook, shallow...
...going to get when you hand over your two bits and your two hours. There is a deep satisfaction in getting exactly what you pay for: a quick roller-coaster, or a good cry, or the fantasy of another life. Often, these pleasures don't even have to be shallow; some of the best movies inspire simple reactions and simple pleasures. There is so much joy in the way Gene Kelly hops and swoons through puddles in Singing in the Rain, or so much tenderness in the way Ethan Hawke sets his arm around Julie Delpy's shoulder in Before...
...regress to teenage indulgences. Lester's raging at the dying of the light might be a little more poignant if it meant more than rediscovering psychedelia and getting into a coed's pants. Furthermore, Angela (played by the svelte and perceptive Mena Suvari) is nearly as brittle and shallow as Lester's wife. Lester isn't checking out of the race, he's just trading up for a newer model...
Once groundwater is contaminated, it is hard to clean up. In 1,345 shallow wells sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey, about 15% exceeded drinking-water standards for nitrate (a nitrogen compound), which at high levels can lead to the potentially fatal "blue baby" syndrome in infants. Many suspect aquifers were in California, the Great Plains and the Mid-Atlantic region. Pesticides have shown up in more than half of shallow wells the USGS studied in agricultural and urban areas. "Is it right that people in rural communities should have to buy bottled water?" Seacrest asks. "What kind...
...from its source in south-central France to its estuary on the Atlantic--and one of the most historic. Generations of French kings built their most beautiful chateaus in the temperate Loire Valley. It is home to some of France's most prestigious vineyards. The wetlands around the relatively shallow, meandering river and its tributaries provide a rich habitat for hundreds of species of birds and other animals; eel, trout and Atlantic salmon ply the waters...