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...read, write and understand arithmetic so poorly that they have difficulty performing modern life's basic tasks. The survey noted that 90 million U.S. adults don't have the language skills to write a business letter or read a bus schedule. About a quarter of those people are immigrants unfamiliar with English, but surprisingly, 6% of the low-literates work as managers...
Take David Cross, for example, the 29-year-old comic from Los Angeles whose version of Ecclesiastes is unfamiliar to most readers of the Bible. Cross's blasphemy and his predilection for overly evocative images ("A great big steaming platter of baby kittens" springs to mind) don't seem suitable for a vehicle on ABC called, say, Cross My Heart. Nor does Lea DeLaria seem quite ready for her own show. She begins her act by announcing, "It's the 1990s and it's hip to be queer and I'm a big dyke." As David Tochterman, vice president...
...safety tips that police officers provide drivers would sound uselessly obvious, were it not for the fact that people ignore them all the time. Keep a distance between cars, they advise. Avoid unfamiliar neighborhoods. Try to avoid the lane next to the curb. Don't leave the car running when you dash into the convenience store. Lock the doors. Keep purses and wallets out of view. "No. 1, be aware," says the FBI's Apple. "In this day and age, it's not safe to unroll your window -- even to give people money at Christmas...
This, as I'm sure you're well aware, is how it all starts. If you're unfamiliar with this particular mental disorder, be patient--the recollections of a neurotic mind are always more obsessively fascinating to the afflicted than to the sane. And, as any decent Harvard student will tell you of this travail, be forewarned...
...movie is shot "entirely on location" in Memphis, certain aspects of the city well-known to locals but somewhat unfamiliar to viewers may cause some problems. Never fear. For here, you have a list of background of Memphis sites and specialties designed especially for the non-Southerner. Enjoy...