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Sega Night Trap Thugs enter a bathroom, grab a young woman wearing a flimsy nightgown, then attach a hook to her neck to suck out the blood. This is a video game? Retailer Toys ''R'' Us decided it was not and withdrew the product from its 581 stores...
...Spencer Associates: Coldwater Ridge Visitor Services Center Leave it to Americans to take a disaster that killed 57 people just 13 years ago and turn it into an official federal tourist trap. Fortunately, this center in the blast-zone heart of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument nicely avoids both government-issue banality and hokey log-cabin regionalism. Spencer Associates, based in Palo Alto, California, has created a spectacular glass-covered grand hall, from which one can gawk at acres of ash, lava beds, charred cedar stumps and, eight miles away, the still active volcano...
...knife?" one senses Crocodile Dundee being buried forever in an unmarked grave. It's little surprise to learn that the director's next project, Rogue, is to be about a marauding crocodile in Kakadu National Park - Steve Irwin, watch your back. Already one can see Mclean setting a steely trap for unsuspecting audiences to slip into...
...shrinking world crowds us closer to pain--and risk; SARS began in Asia but caught a flight to Canada and killed people there. If avian flu, now hitchhiking through Europe, migrates to Africa--where there is neither the money nor the medical infrastructure to track it, much less trap it--the already scary scenarios suddenly get even scarier. The "we're safe, it's far away" illusion has died; the sense of being stalked by a disease is now felt in rich countries as well as poor, and we find we have something in common with people who live with...
Despite the pop-culture bent of the book, Dowd avoids the trap of writing in the tone of a half-baked Cosmopolitan column. She artfully weaves together facts, studies, and thoughts from friends and celebrities. She scathingly mocks women who bow to the cult of plastic surgeons, men who cannot admit to themselves that they are intimidated by powerful women, and anything and everything “retro.” Behind the catty banter and constant references to “The Stepford Wives” and “Sex and the City,” Dowd...