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...Sandra Bullock in The Net me, lives on Laconia Avenue in the Bronx. Luckily, AmEx's massive computer system noticed subtle differences from my normal spending patterns. This impressed me until I realized the computer had failed to consider that I would never survive a week of living in the Bronx...
Without the right decal, deeper tints can actually make things much worse. It's normal for our eyes to widen and let in more light when we wear dark glasses. Unless the lenses are already designed to absorb ultraviolet light, the risk of damaging the eyes only grows...
...time, the campus relaxed. Minch had retreated to his hometown of Greenland, N.H. Recalls Darlene Prickett of the Gallaudet publicity office: "Most people felt that with him gone, things could start going back to normal." Accordingly, on Feb. 2 the Phi Kappa Zeta sorority threw a party, open to all, at a downtown establishment called the Diva Club. "We don't care what kind of music it is, as long as the bass is going, the rhythm," says junior Rebecca Goldenbaum. It was the first big bash of the new semester. Like many of the revelers, junior Jason Lamberton straggled...
...assert Japan's national interests; if, as planned, he visits the Yasukuni shrine, a memorial to Japanese war dead, he would be the first Premier to do so in an official capacity. Gerhard SchrOder's government is explicitly committed to the idea that Germany can and should be a "normal" country, not one whose every move is dictated by war guilt. German pilots flew missions during NATO's 1999 war in Kosovo, the first time its armed forces have taken part in offensive actions since 1945. Even in Britain, appeals to the spirit of 1940, which translate into a broad...
...Time: Does the Bush Administration know that? Solana: We are looking at just the beginning of a four-year term. There are still places in the structure of the Administration that haven't been filled. So it's very difficult to judge. They have a different style, which is normal. But look at the Middle East, look at the Balkans. They may not be engaged in the same manner, but there's no question that they will continue to be engaged. Even if they didn't want to, they'd have...