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...certain respects, they are the same movie: the adventures of fairly decent folks who literally fall into an alien world. Journey, starring Brendan Fraser, is based on the 1864 Jules Verne novel about a scientist and his accomplices who encounter a prehistoric world 4,000 miles below the Earth's surface. In Meet Dave, the travelers are extraterrestrials who have landed on Earth in search of a water supply for their parched home planet...
...immigration reform a centerpiece of the six-month E.U. presidency it assumed on July 1. Officials rejected criticism that the accord--which calls for stiffer border controls and expulsion policies and an alignment of asylum rules--was intended to crack down on immigration. The proposal reached consensus only after certain elements, including an "integration contract" dictating immigrants' behavior, were removed. An estimated 8 million illegal immigrants reside...
...Mart are moving to ban BPA in baby bottles, the Food and Drug Administration maintains that BPA products pose no danger, as does the European Union. Even so, scientists like Mel Suffet, a professor of environmental-health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles, say avoiding certain kinds of plastics is simply being better safe than sorry...
...main such effort has been a voluntary deal announced last December by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in which mortgage lenders agreed to freeze interest rates for certain subprime borrowers. But thanks to the Fed, high rates on adjustable-rate loans are no longer the big problem. The big problem is that 9 million U.S. homeowners owe more than their houses are worth; they're upside down, in the parlance, meaning that if foreclosures are to be slowed, the mortgages themselves must shrink...
...Mosley is any indicator, British frigidity may give way to something much livelier in the bedroom. No one has exact numbers, but small-scale BDSM surveys estimate that 10-15% of the British population indulges in the behavior. And BDSM may actually be therapeutic. "We all have to manage certain kinds of feelings linked with aggression," says Susan Abse, a psychotherapist and the director of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships in London. "And having a sex life in which some of those feelings are played out does not seem problematic...