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...peddling hemorrhoid remedies? Among others, the people who run Hollywood. The commercials strike is seen as a dress rehearsal for the fractious negotiations expected as the contracts for SAG and the Writers Guild expire in the spring. In 1988 a writers' strike lasted 22 weeks; film production shrank and the fall TV season was delayed for two months. Now, in anticipation of a 2001 walkout, studios are rushing scripts into production faster than usual. Some TV bosses have already ordered extra episodes of some series that can be shown next fall...
SEPARATED AT BIRTH Our two candidates sounded pretty similar these two weeks, evincing a common concern for education and foreign affairs. The difference on their thermometers shrank a little bit as well. This round goes to George...
Over the next century, Nauvoo became a sleepy, almost entirely Roman Catholic river burg, whose hot events were weekly Fish Fridays and Chicken Wednesdays. Its working men labored in nearby Keokuk, Iowa, but their number shrank relentlessly as young people left. "By the time I moved here 10 years ago, it was pretty close to a retirement community," says Kathy Wallace, editor of the 500-circulation Nauvoo New Independent. At one point the only grocery closed for half a year for lack of business. When the Latter-day Saints, who had been trickling back for years, bought land...
Most of Pickford's films were parables of class and money: the poor colliding with, and educating, the rich. They shrank neither from the audacious depiction of adult brutality to children nor from the optimism that gave a climactic absolution to the misery that preceded it. Translating her youth into melodrama, Pickford usually played the poor, plucky waif; she suffered for her poverty (she was beaten, scalded, whipped) and, in Stella Maris, she died for it. Like Dickens, Pickford wed sentiment to social passion and created enduring popular...
...legs, while Homo erectus, which appeared about 1.7 million years ago, had shortened forearms and longer legs, more like modern humans. The new fossils fall right in the middle, both chronologically and anatomically, suggesting that the leg bones lengthened at least a million years before the forearm bones shrank...