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Barrymore made her first movie splash as the wide-eyed little girl who befriended E.T. 16 years ago, which qualifies her as a sort of cool elder sister for the new group of Hollywood teens. With a stream of increasingly grownup movie parts, she's not a bad role model. After a 1996 cameo in Scream and a perky co-starring role in The Wedding Singer, she stars in Ever After, a sweet feminist remake of Cinderella that opens this weekend, and plays a pregnant fast-food clerk in the quirky black comedy Home Fries, coming later this year...
...Years it took the World Wide Web to get 50 million domestic users...
...offs against McGwire). Jim Palmer, a Hall of Fame pitcher, calls Maddux "a master at late movement," a baseballese way of saying his pitches dance away at the end, eluding the bat when it's already flying forward. He connives to throw, from the same unhurried motion, at a wide variety of speeds. Wade Boggs once called Maddux "the David Copperfield of pitchers"--and he was thinking magic, not Dickens...
Between the coffee and water, my friends and I made our way to the base of the Washington Monument to visit the wall of Sani-johns. Stretching far and wide, the off-white rows looked like the horizontal counterpart to the more upstanding monument. Unfortunately, with nearly five-hundred thousand thirsty visitors each drinking ice-cold bottles of water (nearly one million dollars into the US economy!), even a horizontal monument couldn't accommodate the frantic crowds that gathered...
Tucker said there is a wide range in environmental perceptions across these faiths--from the "deep ecology" of Jainism to the utilitarian outlooks of Western religions--but that religions beliefs can be adaptable to evolving attitudes about the environment...