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This prayer is now answered. Summer films are ready to creep over to the dark side, where anxiety about what's behind the door or outside the camp tent can drive people nuts. This isn't last summer's type of teen-scream movie. The new films, a dozen due for release this year, are essays in mature terror, for and about grownups, with big or serious stars and a few A-list directors. For the moment, slasher films are deader than a naked cheerleader. Horror is going both artsy, in the Method madness of The Blair Witch Project...
...classic response to such a 1930s-type trap is a fiscal jump start: use deficit spending to get the economy moving, and hope that this gets investors investing and consumers consuming. But after years of ever widening deficits--Japan will run far and away the largest peacetime budget deficit in history this year--the economic engine still shows no sign of catching. True, official statistics say the economy grew an astonishing 1.9% in the first quarter, a number that has mystified observers who look at other indicators and see no evidence of a boom. But there is no sign...
...feeling adventurous, almost any type of fruit, from blueberries to strawberries to peaches, can be substituted for any of the smoothie ingredients...
...Third Voice that's drawing the most attention--good and bad. The software, brainchild of a trio of Singaporean immigrants based in Redwood City, Calif., lets you attach Post-it type notes throughout a website. Subsequent visitors who have also installed the software can read your messages, add comments or start their own discussion threads. The notes don't actually alter the underlying sites; they merely overlay them with a "transparency," to use nomenclature preferred by co-founder and CEO Eng-Siong Tan. And they cover everything from earnest commentary and rude invective to invitations to check out the poster...
...they find themselves increasingly confined to smaller and smaller islands of forest, only a fraction of which have been set aside as wild-animal preserves. Logging is a major problem, although if done prudently the displacement is temporary; the removal of selected trees can even increase, over time, the type of vegetation gorillas prefer. Logging roads, on the other hand, are deadly because they provide access to poachers...