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...white-hot job market that held sway last October, PricewaterhouseCoopers launched a spirited talent hunt. It extended lucrative offers to a score of business and economics majors at Rutgers University in New Jersey who were eager to embark this summer on careers with the big accounting and consulting firm. Some of them will be heading for the beach instead. The company has postponed their corporate debuts until next January. Says a senior: "We were gearing up to start our jobs, and then this letter came. But at least they're not laying...
Matschie's tree kangaroo is a 2-ft.-tall marsupial with a pink nose and a fuzzy golden belly. Its future is uncertain in its native New Guinea, where rain forests are dwindling and the locals hunt it for food, but 22 are alive and breeding on 3,200 acres of wooded hills in northern Virginia. Unfortunately for Matschie's tree kangaroo, that refuge itself is now on the endangered list...
...films, has kept information on his latest film, in this case The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, under wraps. The comedy takes place in New York in the 1940s, and has Woody Allen playing the lead, C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator. Conflict arises when Academy Award winner Helen Hunt, playing an efficiency expert, is hired to evaluate and improve Briggs' place of business. However, since the film is categorized as a romantic comedy, it may be assumed that their relationship does not remain solely antagonistic. Dan Aykroyd stars as Briggs' boss, who, following the theft of one fine jewel...
...displays in a glass case at his parents' Los Angeles home. When Internet auction fever hit last year, the prices of the rarest robots - the $500-range machines intact in original box and Styrofoam - quadrupled, so Nakamura took a deep breath and hopped on a plane to Japan to hunt out the best deals. "It was the first time I'd traveled somewhere just to fulfill my toy fetish," he says of his trips down narrow Tokyo alleyways to check out tiny toy-shops. "But Japan is a mecca for robot collectors, so I knew...
...intended to point out, too, how Assassin offers the cosseted Ivy League Last Man a chance to experience what a real man should experience, albeit in an artificial, nerf-dart sort of way. I speak, of course, of the thrill of the hunt, the delicious paranoia that comes with knowing that every dark corner, every shadowy alcove might conceal a killer and that one’s life hangs by an ever-so-thin thread. I speak, too, of the great struggle for mastery, in which one establishes one’s superiority by force of arms, without recourse...