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...eyes and endless limbs; they are becoming diversified corporations. "I am my own business," proclaims Campbell. "I used to fly to a country for a day and do another shoot somewhere else the next, but I don't do that as often as I used to. It takes a toll. I'm realizing that, now that I'm 24." Last Friday Campbell entered the presumably less stressful restaurant business. She and partners Claudia Schiffer and Elle MacPherson (who has landed a multipicture deal with Miramax) were on hand for the much-ballyhooed opening of their new Fashion Cafe...
...resulting drive was terrifying and endless. I was forced to drive over terrain and through obstacles that I had never tackled before. I drove through a toll booth and clumsily made change with the attendant, who was not amused by my awkwardness in maneuvering the car so our hands could meet, I drove through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and tried to forget that I absolutely detest tunnels. I then drove over the Verrezano Narrows Bridge. Immortalized in Saturday Night Fever, one of my favorite films, the Verrezano is the world's longest suspension bridge. And I drove over it, reaching...
Much of Life After God is well-written. Like Ian McEwan, Coupland has a particular talent for capturing ennui. In "Little Creatures," the narrator muses: "The nomadic lifestyle had taken its toll. I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at the point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-borrow somebody else's life-their aura. I seemed to have lost the ability to create any more aura on my own. "But the failure to move beyond this signals Coupland's main weakness as a writer...
...That toll is a sign to some critics that improvement is needed in the systems that hospitals use to catch errors and review doctors' performance. "You would not walk on an airplane if you did not know that there are safety checks and backups and backups of the backups," says Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of the Health Research Group. Hospitals need just as many fail-safe mechanisms, he says, "so that even if one or two fail, the third one catches the mistake...
...that roam the country hunting down and murdering Islamists. City residents say police patrols have fired at random into civilian crowds after being ambushed. In February, the same month in which the government quelled a riot in the Serkadji prison by killing more than 96 prisoners-Islamists say the toll was more than 200-the village of Belhacene, halfway between Algiers and the Moroccan border, was flattened by government helicopters, according to rebels. As many as 200 were reportedly killed...