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...skeleton key,” the one key that will unlock all the doors (a symbolism carried to extremes throughout the film). When she has trouble unlocking the door in the attic, she starts to suspect that something is fishy, which leads her down the trail to hoodoo—a cousin of voodoo practiced in Louisiana. And there is the necessary semi-love interest in the form of lawyer Luke, played in true John Grisham style with the twang and the charm of Peter Sarsgaard...
Food-allergy sufferers call JANE FONDA'S feeding nuts to an allergic Jennifer Lopez in Monster-in-Law "vindictive." Is Hollywood encouraging murder by trail...
...clerkships, the government service and the years at a white-shoe Washington law firm. But in the post-Bork age, with the opposition ready to pounce on a nominee's judicial or academic record, Roberts also boasts that most prized feature of a rsum--a relatively short paper trail. For a man widely considered one of the brightest legal minds of his generation, Roberts has made very few of his personal views known in either scholarly writings or high-profile judicial opinions, which is exactly what conservatives hope will make his nomination bulletproof...
...people - believed to be ancestors of today's Polynesians - who began moving east of the Solomon Islands about 3,200 years ago. Their pottery, found in fragments at numerous occupation sites scattered from New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago in the west, to Samoa in the east, is like a trail of breadcrumbs across the Pacific, left by these colonizing explorers as they moved with their retinue of plants and animals through the islands. Though evidence of its country's founding culture has been discovered in Vanuatu before, the story is far from complete, and when he heard of the driver...
...past few decades, argument has focused on whether the Lapita people originated among Neolithic farmers of Taiwan before moving through Melanesia and into Polynesia, or whether the Lapita culture was indigenous to the Bismarck Archipelago. In Auckland, Matisoo-Smith's lab has begun the intricate task of following that trail by trying to extract dna from the bones. Only one other study of ancient dna, collected from a range of younger sites, has ever been done in the region, and it was undertaken, Matisoo-Smith says, when less rigorous protocols produced less reliable results. While her results are still incomplete...