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...Labyrinth - as well as The Devil's Backbone, Blade II and the Hellboy series - isn't trying to appeal to the Stephenie Meyer set with his new novel. The first in a trilogy (co-written with author Chuck Hogan), The Strain opens with a plane that lands in New York City, lights off, windows drawn, everyone seemingly dead. Naturally, it gets worse from there. Del Toro spoke to TIME from New Zealand, where he is currently working on the film version of J.R.R Tolkien's The Hobbit, about bloodsuckers, swine flu and his childhood hero. (See pictures of Hello Kitty...
More jobs may be on the way. On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a forum at Pace University in New York City, predicted that many more Americans would see the effects of the $787 billion Recovery Act in the next three months than had seen them in the past three. "People are at work in every state in the nation that would not be at work if not for the act," said Biden. "But the speed of job growth will really pick up in the next few months...
Still, Biden and the business executives noted that there were limits to what the stimulus could do. Peter Harckham, a legislator from New York's Westchester County, said that money from the stimulus bill, while helpful, would leave his county about $1 billion short of its target budget for upgrading local water and sewage systems. The Vice President responded that the stimulus package was not meant to shift the burdens of local governments to the federal budget. Once the stimulus money is gone, Biden said, Westchester will...
...level of concern over Alex the New York Yankee and Alex the New Yorker interviewee is, in many ways, peculiar. In general, we prize excellence, and encourage our sons and daughters to achieve success through whatever means necessary, whether on the baseball field or in the library. Professional athletes and Harvard students both earn respect for their “enhanced performance,” and the lengths to which they have gone to attain it. The meritocracy doles out lucrative compensation accordingly...
...Thus, as he headed into his key meetings in China, Geithner actually had an ever so slight wind at his back. He acknowledged as much, in fact, upon greeting Prime Minister Wen: "At the time we met in New York [last autumn]," Geithner told him, "it was a time of great panic. But we are happy to see small signs of recovery...