Word: welling
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...another bad part does unfold, it's a safe bet the pent-up media will not leave Spears alone. "There are countless journalists bemoaning the fact that Britney is so well behaved these days," says Steve Dennis, author of the new biography Britney Spears: Inside the Dream. That said, he adds, if she can hold it together, Spears will have achieved her greatest success. "If this redemption has some longevity to it, then it will be one of show business's all- time comebacks," Dennis says. "She was staring into the abyss. But right now she's showing the world...
...gives them names and distinct personalities that connect to aspects of Max's psyche and to the people he loves. (Freud would adore this movie.) They are vast, feathered, horned, clawed, beaked and definitely wild - irrational and dangerous, even when showing affection - and Jonze uses their threatening bulk as well as their capacity for cruelty to remind us that Max's taming of them is only temporary. For any child, it is near impossible to stay king of anything, even in fantasy. (Read "Box-Office Weekend: Mighty Meatballs...
...course, figuring out when, exactly, this stretch will end, is an exercise in future-predicting most investors would be well advised to sit out. Even the experts are struggling with it. As Sam Stovall, Standard & Poor's chief investment strategist, recently wrote: "The U.S. equity market's advance continues to befuddle those who are waiting for a sizable price decline before putting their money back to work...
...Lowdown: Most people know that millions of Americans lack health insurance, but this report helps give that enormous group a human face. That many unemployed workers lack health insurance is not a surprise, but many of us may not realize that so many working people do as well - a troubling fact that lends credence to the reform efforts under way on Capitol Hill. Highlighting the plight of childless uninsured adults is also a welcome counterbalance to media coverage of the issue, which often focuses on uninsured children and families. Amid the grim statistics, the foundation mentions a bright spot...
...Boston-area nursing-home residents with advanced dementia for 18 months. These patients were unable to recognize family members, incontinent and unable to get around on their own. Researchers tracked the progression of their disease, complications and survival rates; they also recorded the treatments each patient received as well as their health-care proxies' understanding of advanced dementia and the patient's prognosis. Over the course of the study, 55% of the residents died, with nearly half of those deaths occurring within the first six months of the study. Patients' median survival span was 478 days, a figure comparable with...