Word: problems
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...park--a big mistake, since they both need to be held. At some point, one of them kicked off the Digi-Walker somewhere in the tall grass. I called the folks at New Lifestyles, who told me that losing one's Digi-Walker is such a common problem that they're going to introduce a model that comes in tennis-ball yellow. I can't wait. I've probably logged 20,000 steps just looking for mine...
...disease. Far from a renaissance, sub-Saharan Africa is in the throes of a plague of medieval proportions. Even at 80% discounts, treatment therapies are simply beyond the means of the continent's governments, leaving them to worry about simply containing the spread of the disease--a tricky enough problem in its own right...
They're red herrings, naturally. The Spencer house really is ghost-ridden. But once that fact is established, What Lies Beneath begins to succumb to a common genre problem. When the haunt ceases to be a set of eerie manifestations and begins to take on shape and form, all the spooky fun tends to drain out of these pictures. This one becomes a variation on the Fatal Attraction theme, but with more muscular action and, finally, a lot less plausibility. That's too bad, because the early wit of Clark Gregg's writing and some persuasive direction and playing...
...clean up polluted brownfields --To promote accountability in schools --To give every child access to full health care within four years --To make streets safe, fight drugs and get guns out of schools and neighborhoods --To create empowerment zones --To confront and work toward solving the African AIDS problem --To fight for alternative action, end racial profiling and pass hate-crimes legislation (three pledges...
...East Side who wrap themselves in a Seinfeld show-like all--white cocoon or impoverished blacks in inner-city neighborhoods who know few whites besides cops, teachers and social workers. To some readers, leaving the story of those kinds of people out of the series seemed to teleport the problem to somewhere out there in the hinterlands, away from the paper's own racially troubled backyard...