Word: fourth
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...cried, and I was just really excited." He has not seen recent photos of Macaulay Culkin. Radcliffe, the son of a literary agent and a casting director, has acted before, in the BBC production of David Copperfield and an upcoming John Boorman film. He further impressed members of the fourth estate by acting very cute. "I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry, 'cos I'd like to have an owl," he piped in. "Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually...
...word barracuda, and people say, 'What?' Say the word shark, and you've got panic on the Fourth of July." So spoke the fictional mayor of Amity Island in the hit movie Jaws. Just in time for the summer blockbuster's 25th anniversary, an increase in shark attacks along the nation's southern beaches is bringing back the movie's memorable teaser: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water..." So far this year in Florida, 21 people have been bitten--on track to surpass the 25 attacks in 1999. Recent victims include a surfer...
...shark attack is rarely fatal, but it can be terrifying. Training for a triathlon on Gulf Shores Beach, Ala., Chuck Anderson watched in horror as a shark took off his fingertips, then kept coming back. "The fourth time, my right arm went into his mouth, and we went down to the bottom," he says. Anderson fought for his life, with the shark biting up and down on his arm until he heard the bone snap and break off in the shark's mouth. Anderson made it to shore and survived. He doesn't blame the shark for taking...
...Promising to "leave no child behind," Bush pledges to replicate the Texas model on a national scale. While Gore calls for voluntary tests in fourth and eighth grades, Bush would require that states test children every year from third through eighth grades or lose 5% of their federal aid. If a school turns in failing grades three years in a row, its students would receive federal vouchers for tuition at parochial or other private schools. But each state would control the content of its exams...
...course... "Hold schools accountable for results." The spot closes with Bush at the convention pledging to "renew the promise of America's public schools" - and you can't help noticing that, in fact, Bush behind a podium, grinning, pushing those words out, seems himself like a proud fourth grader giving a report on a simple children's book he read himself...