Word: sparely
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...take-home message: survivors of a major emergency will probably need to fend for themselves for the first few days after calamity strikes. The goal is to get as many San Franciscans as possible to assemble--and keep current--a basic emergency kit, including a flashlight, a transistor radio, spare batteries, canned goods and, above all, enough water to last at least three days. "If Hurricane Katrina didn't prove it to you, I don't know what will," says Newsom. "When disaster strikes, we're all going to be on our own for a minimum of 72 hours...
...step that was at the time," says Clayton. "That one action of Larry's has affected the rest of his life and, indeed, everyone's." David Evans (yet to be called the Edge) was a top student in his Mount Temple class, but he had been spending spare time "strumming away" on acoustic and electric guitar. When he saw that notice, he felt a decidedly nonacademic stirring in his soul. "Ah," he thought, "this could be it." Mullen had been playing drums since the age of nine, charging money for household chores ("I should have done them anyway, I know...
...Rehnquist is gone, his passions for limited government and strict constitutional interpretation will be carried further by his more ideological heirs, Thomas and Antonin Scalia-and, presumably, by whomever Bush appoints to replace him. But Scalia lacks the temperament-and Thomas, the vision-to match the departed Chief. His spare and often brilliant reasoning didn't ignite the conservative revolution that some predicted, but with the help of a new crop of like-minded colleagues, it did bring a generation of liberal activism on the court to an end.-With reporting by Melissa August, Perry Bacon Jr. and Viveca Novak/Washington
...mixes its media and otherwise turns the Pompidou collection on its head. Take, for example, the first room, devoted to the subtheme "disillusioned body," catalog-speak for the deconstruction of the human form. Here Willem de Kooning's grotesque 1972 sculpture The Clamdigger is accompanied by Alberto Giacometti's spare Standing Woman II (1959-60), Pablo Picasso's contorted Women Before the Sea (1956) and Francis Bacon's bizarre 1964 triptych Three Figures in a Room?all demonstrating just how discombobulated a body can be. Around the corner is a group of multiples: Andy Warhol's Ten Lizes...
...accompanies Neill in a round of press interviews before Little Fish's Sept. 8 Australian release. Elegantly attired in tailored jacket, crisp shirt and jeans, the actor enters the hotel foyer wearing what look like two spare tires on his feet - "they're my clown shoes," he says. In fact, they're his farm boots, which bear the U.S. brand name of Providence. An apt choice, since Neill is the most accidental of actors. It was while directing documentaries for the New Zealand National Film Unit that he was asked by director Gillian Armstrong to audition for My Brilliant Career...