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...remade in English by Americans. There's already a producer attached, (Scott Rudin), a director being discussed (David Fincher) and rumors circulating about who might play the female lead, Lisbeth Salander - a tattooed hacker with major issues and loads of unusual sex appeal. Will the part of the reed-thin computer genius go to Natalie Portman? Maybe Kiera Knightley? Kristen Stewart? (See photos of great buddy-cop pairings in history...
...enough to care for the children. "In Hong Kong, it's common not to know neighbors who have been beside you for 10 years," says researcher Yip. While social and mental-health workers have been asked to pay close attention to depressed parents of small children, professional help remains thin on the ground in Hong Kong and is no substitute for a strong personal-support network. "It is packed here," says Yip of a city whose population density, at its highest, exceeds 50,000 per sq km. "Physically we are very close, but emotionally we could not be more distant...
...during spring break, some of Currier House’s closets—which will eventually be used to run vertical water-carrying pipes—will undergo an asbestos-abatement process first, in order to get rid of the thin fibrous crystals found in the closet floor tiles, that if airborne and inhaled, can cause serious lung cancers...
Score: -100 for thin walls, +400 for senior house
...nugget that did make some news was Rove's admission that Bush could never have gotten congressional support for invading Iraq without the threat of weapons of mass destruction. Of course, Rove defends the decision to go to war. But his reason for doing so is laughably thin: everybody thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and therefore everybody thought Saddam was a threat. Rove offers a damning list of Democratic politicians acting like politicians - making bellicose statements prior to the war, then criticizing Bush for rushing in when no WMD turned up. Touché. But then he goes...