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...perfect for his role in X-Men: The Last Stand. Beast was once Hank McCoy, scientist, but when an experiment went awry--don't they always?--he transformed into something blue and furry and muscular and bestial. Beast has never got over the loss of his human form. Unlike Storm, say, or even Wolverine, he can never pass for normal...
...concrete columns that soar 11 ft. into the air. The first time Alicia walked up a ladder into her living room, she stomped on the floor to make sure the whole thing wouldn't collapse like a wobbly flamingo. Now, she says, nothing but the "perfect storm"--a Category 4 or 5--will budge her. "I'm not planning on leaving," she says, peering down from her home in the treetops. "Flooding isn't any issue anymore...
...everyone's mind in New Orleans these days. Downtown last week, government officials, military men in desert gear and private suppliers ran a tabletop exercise against a fictional Category 4 hurricane named Oscar. Next up: the exercise goes live, with role players posing as residents fleeing a Category 3 storm by bus from the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center, the scene of real-life tragedy after Katrina. Along Lake Pontchartrain, meanwhile, contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers are rushing to finish new floodgates on the city's perimeter, working even at night under klieg lights. New levees replacing those...
...race incongruities, most notably at Yale—Harvard relinquished a boat length in the first 1,000 meters to both Yale and Princeton, only to storm back in the final 500 to pull within a seat of the victorious Bulldogs—make the Crimson’s prospects at Lake Quinsigamond as unpredictable as was the boat’s lineup during the dual season...
...Street and issued uncharacteristically clunky ripostes during the Prime Minister's Question Time in Parliament, he scarcely resembled the vigorous, fresh-faced powerhouse who rode a landslide to office in 1997. No wonder: a year after winning a third term in office, the British leader is drenched in a storm of disdain. "He should go and give a different leader a chance," says Josie Brown, 54, an adult student in London, over lunch in the park. Francis Duncan, a Scottish taxi driver, puts it more bluntly: "Vote Tory! We're pissed off with Blair...