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...result is a mess. Kym, in Hathaway's unsympathetic performance, is an annoyingly sour observer of the proceedings, a time bomb everyone hopes will not explode before the marriage is completed. Her father, played by Bill Irwin, is a pious twit, sublimely unaware of how thin and weak his family's values are when put even to the mild test this wedding's kerfuffle presents. It is nice to see Debra Winger as his ex-wife - she's been away from the movies too long - but she mostly lurks on the fringes of the action and is not permitted...
...will not be available for at least five more years. There is also no easy way to detect drug-resistant strains of TB; current sputum-based screens can take anywhere from two weeks to two months, during which time doctors protectively place infected patients on first-line drugs too weak to battle the aggressive strain effectively rather than risk the overuse of last-resort medications that would only feed drug resistance. And in Africa in particular, tuberculosis is nurtured alongside AIDS in a deadly double hit: The weakened immune systems of H.I.V. patients make them more vulnerable to TB infection...
...final exports from Asia are bound for America, and with consumer spending in the U.S. slipping, the manufacturing engines that drive many Asian countries are starting to sputter. The most vulnerable are those with high dependence on exports, such as Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam. In China, weak export orders combined with rising costs are forcing tens of thousands of small factories to close in the country's industrial zones. The woes of exporters are felt throughout the region, which is tightly linked by trade in manufacturing parts and machinery. Slower sales to the U.S. mean reduced orders...
...pair were batting together. "These blighters are after me," Bradman is alleged to have said. "They intend to bowl at my head. Will you take [Gubby] Allen for me?" Bradman always denied saying any such thing, but Fingleton would cite other instances that, to him, showed Bradman could go weak-kneed in the face of express pace...
...college-educated white women split virtually evenly, 46%-45% for McCain. By contrast, Obama remains weak among white men. That group supports McCain 57%-36% overall, and non-college-educated white men back the Republican ticket by an even greater margin...