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There, just east of Traverse City, on the twin Lake Michigan bays of Grand Traverse and Little Traverse, lie the quaint resort towns of Petoskey, Boyne, Charlevoix and Harbor Springs...
RELATIVELY FEW PEOPLE WERE JOLTED BY THE TWIN earthquakes that struck the sparsely populated Southern California desert last June. A lot more may be shaken, though, by a new report from the U.S. Geological Survey and other agencies. While the Landers and Big Bear quakes (respectively 7.5 and 6.6 on the Richter scale) did little damage, they evidently added stress to the system of underground faults that honeycombs that part of the state. As a result, chances of another big quake have quadrupled, with nearly 1-in-2 odds that one will hit within five years. And next time...
Aron's writing is at times uninspired. "He's dead! Oh God, I'm so sorry," declares the Siamese Twin, Ms. Tokatok (Sarah Sidman) upon killing her other half, Mr. Pokapok (Winsome Brown). Or the hungry sister: "Please pity us, we have hungered, we have no home...
...Chernobyl the concern is even more immediate. There is ever-present danger in the operation of reactor No. 3 too. Despite a government plan to shut down the entire plant, No. 3 was reactivated after officials pleaded that its energy was essential for the coming winter. Like its ruined twin, No. 3 is ; considered fundamentally unsafe by the International Atomic Energy Agency. It may be even more so now: many Russian operators have returned home, leaving a reactor run by Ukrainians who are ill-trained, badly paid and demoralized...
...dramatic tension arises both * from the eccentricity of the performers -- except for the sweetly befuddled Lane, the only human on this planet -- and from the audience's familiarity with so many other movies where guns go off all the time. It has the assured, affectless style of Twin Peaks remade as a sitcom...