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...Cinovation, Baker's makeup-effects company in Glendale, Calif., corpses dangle from the ceiling and a towering grim reaper stands guard outside his office, holding a sword. Baker is famously stubborn ("extremely committed to his artistic belief system" is how Nutty II producer Brian Grazer puts it), wears his hair in a ponytail and absolutely loves apes. He wore his own monkey suits in The Incredible Shrinking Woman and the remakes of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young. He designed the primates in Gorillas in the Mist and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes...
...most hated adversaries (think of the Expedition), has made good on a pledge to examine better ways to fuel its cars and trucks, environmentalists may see a light at the end of the tunnel - as well as a new addition to their arsenal in the war against other, more stubborn carmakers. "Ford's decision shows that people who say you can't make cars cleaner and more fuel-efficient are wrong," the energy policy director of the Sierra Club told the New York Times...
...embrace God's word means to turn away from what he tells us is wrong and to embrace what he tells us is right. For the homosexual, it means repenting of that lifestyle. Some readers may think gay people who claim to be Christians are victims of a stubborn, narrow-minded group of other Christians who refuse to embrace them. TIME should be more tolerant of the evangelical church and of biblical Christianity. JEFF AUSTEN Waterloo...
...unemployed to get them into the work force. But jobless people over the age of 57 1/2 are not counted as unemployed; neither are 911,000 Dutch people on disability benefits. The high number of disabled--more than three times the number of officially unemployed--is such a stubborn feature of the economy that it's been called the Dutch disease. Tightening disability definitions and other measures haven't cured...
...refugees will be allowed to return (both to the new entity and to Israel), and who controls Jerusalem (both sides want it as their capital). At least for public consumption, Barak and Arafat each insist they're the one doing all the compromising and the other guy's being stubborn. U.S. diplomats, as one put it, keep hearing the same line from both men: ?I've put down my bottom lines and I've got nothing in return...