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...foreclosures skyrocket, a growing number of investors are becoming enamored with the idea of buying up distressed properties, doing a little rehab, and then putting the homes back on the market to turn a tidy, double-digit profit. "We call them wannabe investors," says Rob Munn, who has been buying and selling foreclosures for eight years in Tennessee and Florida. "They watch Flip This House, and think, 'I can do that...
...people into murderous psychopaths when it infects them. And they, in turn, convert the facility into a kind of high-tech haunted house. Kathleen Quinlan is attractive as the uninfected security guard most imperiled by these creatures. She may be scared, but never out of her wits. Jeffrey De Munn nicely underplays the independent scientist trying to set things to rights. The rest of the cast is not as strong, but Barwood effectively hurtles the action down its dark and twisting course. THE BRIDE...
...never forget, a defining vision of the Scottish town's moment of horror. "Victoria!" she cried, as a convoy of ambulances sped past, sirens screaming and lights flashing. "Victoria!" That was one of the names: Victoria. Others, read out in a mournful voice by police chief superintendent Louis Munn, were as familiar and as evocative of middle-class Scottish family life: Emma, Melissa and Megan; Charlotte, Kevin, Ross and Hannah; David, Mhairi, Brett and Abigail; Emily, Sophie, John and Joanna. Ordinary names, pretty names, the names on teachers' attendance lists, on captions of school pictures, on programs for school pageants...
...pastures surrounding the ponds and marshes of the Pantanal, herds of capybaras, the world's largest rodents, munch on the native grasses. Hyacinth macaws, the world's largest parrots, nest in trees and crack palm seeds disgorged by cattle, which eat the fruit around the nut. According to Charles Munn, an ornithologist with Wildlife Conservation International, the cattle fill a niche formerly occupied by extinct giant sloths, which dined on palm seeds thousands of years before the first Portuguese settlers arrived. This happy coincidence is one reason why humans here get along with the 80 species of mammals, 230 kinds...
Also working in the Pantanal's favor is the inaccessibility of the central core of the huge floodplain. The enormous, uninhabited wetlands provide a refuge where animals can retreat from hunting and other human intrusions. Munn notes that the area has survived deforestation in large sections of its watershed and that the effects of industrialization in the surrounding states have so far been minimal. "If this glass is half empty," he says, surveying the wild diversity of wading birds, flycatchers and kingfishers feeding at the flooded edge of a pasture, "I can't imagine what it would look like full...