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...When that date doesn't turn out so well, he hits the road and hooks up with Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson, parading splenetic majesty in both the role of a lifetime and a more cheerful remix of his nutcase from Natural Born Killers), who's as confrontational as Columbus is constricted. Tallahassee's mission, aside from setting the world record for zombie decapitations, is to find a pack of his beloved Twinkies. And time is against him. "Believe it or not," he tells Columbus, "Twinkies have an expiration date." So do the lives of these mismatched amigos if they...
...than other medicines. This has been the case since the first vaccinations were given to prevent a spread of smallpox in England in the late 18th century. That vaccine used bovine ingredients (the word vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow, vacca) and people feared the injections would turn them into cows. (See the top 5 swine...
Figuring out the story of human origins is like assembling a huge, complicated jigsaw puzzle that has lost most of its pieces. Many will never be found, and those that do turn up are sometimes hard to place. Every so often, though, fossil hunters stumble upon a discovery that fills in a big chunk of the puzzle all at once - and simultaneously reshapes the very picture they thought they were building...
...Heroes" are well aware that the show has spiraled downward into a convoluted mess over the past two seasons. Between the excess of characters, nonsensical and repetitive plotlines, and the fact that continuity has been completely shot to hell, FlyBy is seriously hoping for an upward turn. Perhaps the volume's title "Redemption" is self-referential, but after watching this week's episode, we aren't getting our hopes...
...absence of a formal agreement, nations are not obligated to turn over fugitives to each other. The U.S. and Russia do not have an extradition treaty, which led many dissidents to defect to America and seek political asylum during the Cold War. Fugitive U.S. financier Bobby Vesco allegedly stole $224 million from a Swiss mutual fund but avoided detection for years by hopping between Caribbean islands that did not have extradition laws (and once even tried buy his own island). And Lebanon's Mohammed Ali Hammadi, wanted in the for murdering a U.S. Navy passenger during the 1985 hijacking...