Word: thorntons
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...popularity with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater and Ron Howard, while touting its professional film industry labor force, a growing number of sound stages and its geographic diversity. But in the last four years, 32 film projects - including Ghost Rider starring Nicolas Cage and Billy Bob Thornton's The Astronaut Farmer - that had initially expressed interest ended up choosing other locations. Adding insult to injury - an estimated $327 million in spending and 4,600 jobs - 12 of the films had Texas story lines, according to the state's film commisison. Professional crews who had settled in Austin...
...would you address the current cry for national health care? -Angela Thornton, hoffman estates, ill.I would look to something other than the government to provide health care, as certainly everything we've seen indicates that national health plans increase costs and decrease quality. I would expand health savings accounts, both who can get them and how much you can put into them. The goal is to get as few middlemen in the process as possible. Health saving acconts allow that to occur for a lot less money. Then I say, you reduce the number of illegal Immigrants in this country...
...Harvard offense with a line-drive home run to left field in the top of the third.The Crimson tacked on two more runs in the frame via back-to-back doubles from Rogers and junior shortstop Jeff Stoeckel followed by a run-scoring single from sophomore Harry Douglas. Joe Thornton went the distance for the Quakers, finishing with six strikeouts after fanning five of the first eight he faced. NOTES: Junior Matt Vance, the regular center fielder for the past two seasons, started at third base in both games. Wilson, the regular third baseman, moved across the infield to play...
...offense with a line-drive home run to left field in the top of the third. The Crimson tacked on two more runs in the frame via back-to-back doubles from Rogers and junior shortstop Jeff Stoeckel followed by a run-scoring single from sophomore Harry Douglas. Joe Thornton went the distance for the Quakers, finishing with six strikeouts after fanning five of the first eight he faced. NOTES: Junior Matt Vance, the regular centerfielder for the past two seasons, started at third base in both games. Wilson, the regular third baseman, moved across the infield to play first?...
Would that be safe? Carbon dioxide can be lethal, a fact grimly illustrated in 1986 when a giant surge of the stuff bubbled up from Lake Nyos in Cameroon, asphyxiating 1,700 people as they slept. Nonetheless, investigators involved in the Thornton project insist there is little cause for worry. "The fields held oil and gas for millennia," says Larry Myer, an earth scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., and the project's director, "so geologically we know they're going to hold...