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...seen her become through such movies as “Igby Goes Down,” and she delivers an enchanted performance. Mirabelle is an aspiring artist transplanted to L.A. and then marooned behind the glove counter at Saks. She never wears pants but drives a pickup truck. She is so endearingly out of touch with the modern era that you can’t help but adore her. Danes, wafting around in vintage dresses, is so beautifully understated that she melds right into the part. There is no way that Mirabelle could be played by anyone other than...
...were a Guinness record for heart, he probably would have broken it. Deciding to burn the lantern at both ends, we returned to the Common under the cloak of nightfall, only to find a chain gang of burly men tossing the leftover jackos into the back of a flatbed truck, like gypsies pursuing the remains of the dead. But as painful as the sight was, we knew somehow that Halloween would live on. And for that, we thank brave Stollichnaya...
...scorching heat of the late afternoon eases a few degrees, the last ferry pulls away from the bank of the River Gambia. Normally, the rusting blue barge would be packed with people and vehicles, while the road that runs up to the river would teem with taxis and trucks, traders shouting for business and farmers herding cows and donkeys. But this afternoon, the Gambian port of Farafenni is a ghost town. Bereft of customers, traders are closing their shops, pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between...
Whitehouse never envisioned spending her later years this way. She and her husband Alva Don raised four children. In the 1980s they lived in Montana, where he earned a good living as a long-haul truck driver for Pacific Intermountain Express. But in 1986 he was killed on the job in a highway accident attributed to faulty maintenance on his truck, as his company struggled to survive the cutthroat pricing of congressionally ordered deregulation. After her husband's death, Whitehouse knew the future would be tough, but she was confident in her economic survival. After all, the company had promised...
...Striking as the Hubble images are, there is one thing they couldn?t reveal. The telescope?s giant eye can see lunar objects no smaller than 60 yards across. Somewhere in Taurus-Littrow and Hadley-Apennine are the comparatively tiny, truck-sized descent stages of the Apollo lunar modules, left behind when the crews blasted off. Neither of those metal relics has been seen in the more than 30 years since human beings last walked on the moon. Only if the U.S. actually commits itself to its new lunar plans will they be seen again any time soon...