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Back when I got it, polio was an epidemic in New York City. Without warning, I went from being an active New York kid who loved baseball and being a cub scout to an invalid, confined to bed and isolated. The illness started with a high fever, which was painful and scary and lasted two days. After that, I was paralyzed. I wasn't frightened, though. But I was lonely. I had been quarantined from other kids, except for my older brother and younger sister...
...Three as well as the TV drama The New Option. He spends much of his time in China, where he is trying to strengthen ties between the mainland's entertainment industry and Hong Kong's. He's even begun building a performing-arts university in Beijing, in part to scout out young talent...
...Absolutely, absolutely,” said Harvard coach Jay Weiss when asked if he scouts potential future opponents. “Any national competitions we go to we [scout] for many of the weight classes...
...eRealty and other online brokerages, that's the new model of real estate sales: let customers scout houses and meet with agents only after they have narrowed the field. Customers control more of the process and pay lower commissions since they do more of the work. But a fight within the industry could hinder this approach. Critics, including the governing trade group of most agents, the National Association of Realtors (N.A.R.), say the online agencies skirt the spirit of the house listings. Realtors pool properties in the multiple-listing service, a roster shared with competing agents so that clients...
What we have here is the makings of a not unfamiliar western narrative, some elements of which (the captive innocents, the scout who owes his skills to his intimacy with the natives) can be traced back to James Fenimore Cooper and beyond. What sets The Missing apart is a potent mystical element. The raiders are led by an unrelievedly evil shaman called Chidin (Eric Schweig), who can throw a handful of dirt in a man's face and permanently blind him or send a dark thought across the miles and bring a woman near to death. He brings out Jones...