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...about Lazarus being raised from the dead. And now this book also focuses on death. What about the experience of death interests you? Lazarus was sort of comic, I guess. He was brought back to life but he had no say in it. With Bunny, I didn't want to write a novel that's a normal redemptive story. I don't buy the whole redemption thing anyway. We're human and we are capable of love and destruction. These things are a part of what we are. Why do we need to be redeemed in the first place...
However, some observers worry that all the discounting and secondary lines could tarnish a brand's upscale image in the long-term. "You want to avoid the Pierre Cardin catastrophe," says Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst Luca Solca, who was referring to the way Cardin's apparel wound up in bargain basement bins at discount retail stores because there were few checks and balances to control quality, distribution and pricing. (Read "Recession? Not in New Delhi's Luxury Stores...
...that it relies entirely on self-reports from a self-selected group of respondents. Much more rigorous research needs to be conducted to understand the relationship between mental illness and pimples - as well as the root cause of bad cases of acne. But in the meantime, drug companies might want to start working on a Clearasil-Prozac miracle cream...
That includes the scientific community. Paleontologists aren't just interested in what dinosaurs looked and acted like; they also want to know how they fit into their environment. From what scientists already know about the ancient lake beds where Raptorex was originally found, for example, they know it had some stiff competition. "They would have co-existed with velociraptor-like dinosaurs," says Sereno - the human-scale carnivores that starred in Jurassic Park. But they would have hunted very differently: velociraptors, Sereno explains, "had long, grasping arms with clawed hands." They also had a large, sickle-shaped claw on their middle...
...surrounded himself with key DPJ executives in what Okumura says could be the "strongest across the board" Cabinet ever. Key members are Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii and Health Minister Akira Nagatsuma, who will have to deal with tough issues that the Japanese public - aging and anxious about the future - want tackled quickly: the anemic economy and the mismanaged pension system run by the Health Ministry...