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...this film. I like its fancifully ghostly, ghastly look: the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges missing their center sections (they were bombed to keep people from getting out or in), the whole idea of the most congested U.S. city utterly abandoned, as if everyone had finally moved to the Sunbelt or the Hamptons. I admire, and share, the movie's extended interest in Neville's daily ritual as cop (hunting down the vampire-like infectees), woodsman (looking for animals that will put fresh meat on his table) and lonely guy (setting up a table each day at noon in case...
...opened a record number of Del Webb communities in 2006--17--but project only nine openings for 2007, and most seem to be in the Sunbelt, Florida and California...
...getting into the wear-and-wash act. Around parts of the Sunbelt, young collegians and high schoolers have begun aping the University of Oklahoma's star linebacker, Brian Bosworth, who has been seen sporting a streak of black on one side of his blond hairdo and an ever changing rainbow effect on the other side. His ultrashort hair, however, sometimes presents problems: the color occasionally refuses to hold. New York University Freshman Paul Nagle prefers to highlight his brown waves with an electric shade of aubergine to complement his camouflage fatigues. He calls the fad a kind of "Disney rebellion...
...Forget the youthquake. What America really loves is... old. Whatever Wayne represents - the Old Testament God, a Mount Rushmore face with a permanent scowl, the craggy soul of Frontier or Sunbelt America - he has made the list in each of the Harris poll's 13 years, and he's figured in the top three slots eight times. It's as if the People's Choice Awards kept picking Elvis as favorite singer...
...Cambridge economy both from a prestige standpoint and as a major employer. “In addition to Harvard, MIT and the City of Cambridge are also major employers and we can count on the fact that our top four employers would not be moving to the sunbelt or overseas, which represents stability,” said Healy. Beth C. Rubenstein, Assistant City Manager for Community Development, maintained that Harvard is an integral part of the Cambridge economy but does not stifle its ability to diversify. “The universities are a major employment sector in Cambridge...