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...from America is benign but not satisfactory. America's idea of Australia is mostly thin and vague. Americans fantasize in a desultory way about Australia but know much less about us than we do about them. Australia, we hear, is rather like Texas 50 or 100 years ago. The basic American idea of the basic Australian male is - who else? - whatsizname, him with the big knife, star of Crocodile Dundee. Aussies (wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudo-intimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed...
...answer to the latter question is never seriously in doubt, but Stine offers a battery of heavy-breathing, vicarious shocks along the way as Danielle struggles with such basic bugaboos as guilt, abandonment and helplessness. And he adds a neat twist at the end suggesting Danielle's strange ordeal may be getting its second wind...
...talk show. But there they are, twice a day, on Sci-Fi's new Crossing Over with John Edward, using the host, a regular-Joe medium, to greet, reminisce with and bust the chops of loved ones in the studio audience. Nor do the dead walk only on basic cable. On series as disparate as Providence, Ally McBeal, Soul Food and The X-Files, apparitions of departed loved ones offer advice and solace. On the WB's Dead Last, scheduled for next year, a rock band will spend its offstage time crisis counseling troubled ghosts...
...reams of regulations lead to lots of violations. A recent Navy survey found that 62% of U.S. submarines stored flammable liquids improperly, increasing the chance of a fire. And 57% of them had nonapproved multi-outlet power strips. More than 30% of the subs were missing basic lifesaving equipment--such as nose clips, whistles and fluorescent sea markers--that sailors would need if they had to escape from their submarine individually...
...olds than ever before. (Boys, as far as anyone can tell, are still growing up at their usual, slower pace.) Nobody can explain this speedup. Some even question whether it's real or anything abnormal. But if you suspect your first- or second-grader is blossoming too early, some basic information may help you sort through the confusion...