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...headlights for the first time in more than 40 years. Instead of door handles, the lighter, more powerful C6 has membrane-activated switches hidden behind recesses. Keyless entry and engine starting means owners will never have to fish around in their pockets for keys before zooming off into the sunset...
...always wanted a hobby, so I bought it and _________ ! (exclamation) I was a stamp collector,” says Nichols as he segued to a thoughtful pause and cast his gaze through the window at the dying rays of a _________ (sunset color) sunset. “Nay, I was a philetilist...
...later denounced as a hoax.) Rizalina concludes that Zamora has become uncomfortably enamored with her, and she runs away to become a dancer in a seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American actor who has abandoned his family to work on the crew of Napalm Sunset, a Vietnam War movie being filmed in the Philippines (inspired by Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.) Like Zamora, Moody has a deep, conquistador carnality, a trait shared by almost all of the men in Dream Jungle, but Rizalina emerges from their affair happy though a little bit wary...
...commercialism. With his kids grown and some money saved, he volunteered with Medecins sans Frontieres, which placed him in Liberia. Seeing children with machine guns at the Monrovia airport, "I really thought I was flying into hell," he says. He worked hard, ignoring the mortar fire at sunrise and sunset as patients with serious gunshot wounds stumbled in. Whereas in the U.S. he would have taken care of 10 patients a day, here he was treating as many as 80. "This is a way for me to use all these things I learned and practice a more pure [form...
Daylight Saving Time saves energy. That’s why we have it. Most consumers of energy waste daylight by waking up after sunrise and going to bed after sunset; for seven months of the year, Daylight Saving Time recovers an hour of this wasted daylight and allows us to use the sun for an additional hour in the evening, free of charge. For the other five months, it’s a different story. To the delight of petroleum exporters, we burn large quantities of oil to power the light bulbs that keep this country’s homes...