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...version of Big Brother. And now the program has come to bustling Naples for the first time in search of potential contestants for September's fifth series. But in this sultry southern city, there is no need to turn on the television for the next new drama to unfold. More than 1,200 people have shown up, and rumors are swirling. Someone says a well-known local dancer is trying out. Others have heard that Grande Fratello wants to introduce a sibling tandem for the first time, prompting a pair of friends to discuss whether they should pose as brothers...
...troops giving highly unconventional readings of the Geneva Conventions at Abu Ghraib. In an instant, a handful of Army troopers and their military-intelligence minders had put at risk one of the last remaining justifications for invasion in the first place: to help the Iraqi people. Watching it all unfold, it has been hard to dismiss the fear that the U.S. not only might be failing to make America safer but might be doing the opposite. Republicans following Bush's shrinking numbers this month say it's not any one thing that has landed the President in trouble...
Transformed overnight into adults, the emerging cicadas start out with soft, milky white bodies. After two hours their wings unfold and dry. They suck some plant fluids and live to mate and lay eggs...
Mall REITs are least attractive at this time because consumers generally spent throughout the recession, keeping retail rents and occupancy rates firm. There is little likelihood of a further strong rise. Office and industrial properties have recovery potential as companies start to hire again, though that will probably unfold slowly...
That’s why, despite my protestations to the contrary, this reading period will unfold much like any other: plenty of guilt-ridden sleep-ins, somnolent afternoons spent “working” on reading just about anything else but the pile of glaring sourcebooks and evenings counted in minutes as watching time itself becomes more appealing than that video of lecture from the third week of class. If this doesn’t sound fun, it’s because it isn’t. But the alternative (prioritizing? scheduling? timetables?), much like a particularly tedious Core...