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...quick search on the Internet yielded a long list of alternative bands for which it would be plausible to believe that this naming method was used. The Alternative Rock World home page named top groups like Tragically Hip, Econoline Crush, Gravity Kills, Searching for 13, Sprung Monkey and Marcy Playground...
DIED. REG SMYTHE, 80, industrious British cartoonist who sketched the ne'er-do-well Andy Capp for more than 40 years; in Hartlepool, England. It was a comic strip sprung from the heart: Smythe patterned the beer-guzzling, bumptious bloke and his long-suffering wife Flo on his parents. Although Capp spoke in the vernacular of working-class northern England, his chatter had universal appeal, enlivening the funny pages in dozens of countries...
...after another late night at the office, lounging with a photo journal in her bathtub, where she notices that a pipe from the apartment immediately upstairs from hers has sprung a leak through her ceiling. Cholodenko, whose script won the Screenwriting Award at this spring's Sundance Film Festival, is nonetheless more than willing to throw in a few unlikely convolutions--the landlord doesn't answer his phone (apparently for days), Syd has a way with a wrench and some duct tape--to shuttle her protagonist into the upstairs den of depraved sophistication where her story will take...
Which is why I am at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Today I will undergo an all-day physical examination designed to ferret out the body's early warning signs, nascent failings and pending catastrophes. Dozens of similar executive health programs have sprung up around the country, prompted by the proliferation of HMOs, which generally restrict physicals to bare-bones essentials, and by a rapidly aging population in need of greater care. The cost of these thorough examinations can run high--from $1,200 to $2,500--and is generally not reimbursable by insurance companies. Rather, employers often insist that their...
CITA currently has four clinics in the U.S., all of which are affiliated with major hospitals, and charges $6,800 per treatment. But it is not the only game in town. Storefront clinics, using variations of CITA's patented procedure, have sprung up across the nation, and a California entrepreneur is selling franchises for at-home detox centers for $1,000 apiece...