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...nocturnal: It's cooler at night. Try to get your teacher or your boss to let you work at night and sleep during the day. Desert animals use this method successfully...
...method Mitch uses to solve his dilemma is also much more plausible--and clever. As in the book, he plays both sides off each other. In the movie, however, the gravity of the consequences of full cooperation with the FBI--disbarment, career termination, etc.--are much more vivid, and Mitch's determination to follow his oath as a lawyer while getting free of the firm is powerfully portrayed...
Bonito Oliva's curatorial "method" has been to jumble works together in the Italian pavilion under the title "The Cardinal Points of Art." The result is a shambles, featuring the usual notables from Joseph Beuys to Georg Baselitz, interfused with less famous figures and a large photography section. Many of the individual works are worth seeing -- or reseeing, since not a few have been round the international circuit already -- but since this is one of the worst-hung shows in recent memory, it is quite hard to do even that...
...education. She sold her stereo to pay for gifts for her "host family" in Germany, only to arrive and be forced into a brothel. Others are lured by traffickers posing as marriage brokers. On a Belgian television documentary last month, Tibor, a tall, handsome Hungarian pimp, revealed his method: "I went to Romania. I heard a lot of girls wanted to leave. I took the kind of girl no one would miss if she disappeared. Girls who were having trouble with their parents or who lived alone. So when they were resold, no one would look for them...
Despite the many potential uses for RU 486 and its effectiveness as an abortion method, efforts to legalize it in the U.S. have met with repeated failure. Last year a pro-choice group called Abortion Rights Mobilization decided to force a court challenge of the import ban imposed on RU 486 by the Bush Administration in 1989. The organization helped Leona Benten, a pregnant 29-year-old California social worker, fly to England, obtain a dose of RU 486, then try to bring it into the U.S. through New York City's Kennedy Airport. Customs officials seized the pills...