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Every fan of horror or science fiction knows the name of Richard Matheson, from scripts for Vincent Price movies such as House of Usher, his own The Incredible Shrinking Man, to the classic vampire ta...
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Published: Feb 01, 2006
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A review of Blake Snyder's book on screenwriting. In Save the Cat, he explains everything you need to know about plot development, genres, and character development, so that anyone can create a movie ...
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Published: Dec 20, 2005
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A review of The Complete DVD Book: Designing, Producing and Marketing Your Independent Film on DVD. How to put your film on a DVD, how to make menus, commentaries, Easter Eggs, and then how to market...
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Published: Dec 20, 2005
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A prequel and sequel to the movie King Kong, Brad Strickland tells the story of the inhabitants of Skull Island, from the people who built the wall to the kongs, great apes of which King Kong was the ...
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Published: Sep 20, 2005
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The Samurai film is to Japan what the Western is to the US, movies full of heroes who resonate to the Japanese character. In order to fully understand, instead of only enjoy, these movies, a Westerner...
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Published: Sep 18, 2005
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Willis O'Brien founded the art of stop-motion animation, and his claims to fame are The Lost World, King Kong, and Ray Harryhausen. O'Brient was Ray Harryhausen's mentor.
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Published: Aug 26, 2005
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Whenever a movie of the stature of King Kong is to be released, tie-ins are not far behind. There'll be so much to choose from that you need a scorecard to figure it out.
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Published: Aug 25, 2005
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The Da Vinci Code is one of the more controversial books of all time, for all that it is a work of fiction. But how much of it is based on historical fact, and how much on fiction. Sharan Newman expla...
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Published: Aug 16, 2005
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Birdwatching brings us enhanced enjoyment of the ordinary, the easy and the safe, it brings us moments of high drama, gratification, dangerous delight. Simon Barnes explains the allure of this most po...
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Published: Aug 15, 2005
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Forget movies. Forget fiction books. You want to know what it was like to face fire, read Voices of War. The soldiers themselves tell their stories, and bring you right into their lives. Next time Mem...
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Published: Aug 12, 2005
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Think of New Jersey and you think of pollution and the Superfund and people, people everywhere. Nature enthusiasts know where to go, however. The Pine Barrens is a designated ecosystem and provides a...
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Published: Aug 11, 2005
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Controversy still rages, and will continue to rage for time immemorial, on the Iraq War. Too many people read only one viewpoint on the subject, which is not the best way to get a complete picture of...
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Published: Aug 11, 2005
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Most people go see a movie and if they like it they make pick up the soundtrack. But there's so much to be found at the movie's website that you simply must go there to enhance your movie going experi...
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Published: Aug 10, 2005
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Elvis Presley, 22 years after his death, is still one of the most beloved musicians of all time, and in this book his family pay tribute to him with intimate stories. If you want to know what it was l...
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Published: Aug 09, 2005
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A movie guide to the classics that have defined genres, influenced filmmakers, and still serve as standards by which other films are measured. Looking for ideas for movies to rent - this is the book t...
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Published: Aug 09, 2005
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There's an old saying, "Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority." This book, Iraq War, attempts to provide a fair, balanced account of the events leading up to the Iraq War, the War itself, an...
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Published: Aug 07, 2005
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Every year since 1986, fans of the fantastic have foregathered in Atlanta, Georgia at the time of the Dragon*Con. This year it is taking place from Friday, Sept 2-5, and as usual there are hundreds of...
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Published: Aug 06, 2005
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Ayn Rand is most famous as the author of The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957). To understand her philosophy, and what drove her to create it, you need to know the history of her life. Ayn...
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Published: Aug 06, 2005
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Who remembers what film won the Oscar in 1933? It was a Western, Cimarron. But ask if anyone has heard of King Kong, everyone says...sure! Tom Weaver, interviewer extraordinaire, brings together 20...
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Published: Aug 06, 2005
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Rats! The very word sends a chill down the spine of anyone who hears it. But Robert Sullivan writes about rats in an entertaining way in "Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most...
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Published: Aug 05, 2005
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Old time radio drama is a forgotten medium today, except by a large band of dedicated enthusiasts who collect and listen to the programs, and relive the thrills of yesteryear.
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Published: Jul 31, 2005
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Women who want to make a successful career often find it hard to get to the top - to break the glass ceiling. The book provides excellent advice on what's wrong and how to fix it.
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Published: Jul 26, 2005
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The Monarch is the most recognized butterfly in North America - practically everyone has seen the large, bright orange-winged creatures flitting about at one time or another. The Monarch, for all its ...
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Published: Jul 22, 2005
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In his fun and fast-paced memoir, McGough brings us through two years in the life of a bat boy. In his first year, 1992 they finished 4th, and in 1993, his last, they finished 2nd.
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Published: Jul 21, 2005
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To a geologist, stones are richly illustrated texts, telling gothic tales of scorching heat, violent tempests, endurance, cataclysm, and reincarnation. Bjornerud explains the concepts in this fascinat...
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Published: Jul 12, 2005
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In today's tough economic climate it's more important than ever for managers to be the best at what they do - motivate employees, accomplish goals efficiently, create products or services that sell, a...
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Published: Jul 12, 2005
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Scutarro and Brown try at running the whole of the river, some 3,200 miles from source to sea, an exploration dreamed of for centuries. This dream of "running" this river had led to the deaths of doze...
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Published: Jul 11, 2005
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Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. His middle name was given him by his mother, after the actor Douglas Fairbanks, and presaged Bradbury's own work in film years ...
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Published: Jul 03, 2005
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Manhattan's World Trade Center consisted of two towers, four smaller buildings and a 47-story high-rise. The towers became known as a symbol of New York, and were prominently featured on every postcar...
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Published: Jul 03, 2005
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Identity theft. Whose fault is it? Individuals who don't protect their identities...or the financial organizations to whom they entrust their personal information, in the belief that these huge compan...
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Published: Jul 03, 2005
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"There is no literacy crisis, at least not the kind of crisis the media have portrayed... There is...a problem. Nearly everyone in the United States can read and write. They just don't read and write ...
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Published: Jun 30, 2005
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When it comes to watching movies, there's nothing new under the sun. When it comes to movie appreciation (otherwise known as movie criticism) there's lots of undiscovered country out there. Take the 1...
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Published: Jun 30, 2005
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Much has been written about the conflict of World War II, which many see as a battle against good versus evil. Most of it has been written about the soldiers who fought and died, but there were other ...
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Published: Jun 28, 2005
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Phil Mickelson's book is subtitled But Winning Isn't Everything. It isn't, of course. It's only what you win that matters. Mickelson played on the PGA tour for ten years. But he never rated a biograph...
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Published: Jun 28, 2005
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Two thousand products later, Parker Brothers is one of the best known and most beloved of all game publishers. And somewhere in the process, its games have gone from simply reflecting the values of th...
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Published: Jun 28, 2005
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Global warming is a hot topic these days. To understand what global warming is, and whether or not we need to be afraid, one must start by learning about the ice ages, and Frozen Earth is an excellent...
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Published: Jun 28, 2005
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What do secret agents and restaurant critics have in common? Well, with the notable exceptions of James Bond, and John Steed and Emma Peel (the Avengers), they don't want to be recognized.
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Published: Jun 23, 2005
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This Adaptations is an anthology of short stories that were the basis for 35 movies. Why do filmmakers adapt from literature, anyway? Editor Stephanie Harrison quotes film theorist George Bluestone: "...
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Published: Jun 23, 2005
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There are a few diseases that destroy the body but leave the mind intact - Lou Gehrig's disease, and MS. These diseases put their victim in one particular kind of hell. And then there's Alzheimer's di...
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Published: Jun 22, 2005
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Alchemists have a bad rap today, but what they were really doing for hundreds of years was seeking after knowledge...they wanted to understand their world...and make money while doing so, of course. W...
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Published: Jun 22, 2005
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"...in more than thirty-five animated features Disney has released...there is scarcely a mention of God as conceived in the Christian and Jewish faiths shared by most people of the Western world and m...
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Published: Jun 22, 2005
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Now that it's summer, it seems not a weekend goes by that I don't bike past a group of giggling teens standing on a street corner, displaying illegible signs advertising their fund-raising task - usua...
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Published: Jun 22, 2005
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In his own way, German actor Conrad Veidt was just as heroic as anyone who picked up a rifle and went into battle against evil.
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Published: Jun 22, 2005
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Lou Gehrig retired midway through the 1939 season when his disease, ALS, became too much even for the Iron Horse. He died two years later, on June 2, 1941. He was 38 years old.
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Published: Jun 21, 2005
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There's an old saying, meant to be humorous: "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you." Identify theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States, and ruins thousan...
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Published: Jun 21, 2005
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"Great... inventors start out to solve a practical problem, then their solution soars off into uncharted skies whose scope they could not have imagined when they embarked on their work."
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Published: Jun 20, 2005
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Jane Austen, born in 1775, died in 1817 at the age of 41. Although she lived in a time when women were not given formal education, she was extremely intelligent and well read, and wrote from childhood...
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Published: Jun 16, 2005
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Newport News Park, with hiking and biking trails, an arboretum, playgrounds and picnic shelters, a campground, a 30-acre aeromodel flying field, archery range, and a disc golf course, is the gateway t...
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Published: Jun 16, 2005
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On May 26, 2005, it was reported that a flower, the Mount Diablo buckwheat, thought extinct for sixty years, was found in a remote part of California.
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Published: Jun 13, 2005
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Girls today have more opportunities to reach for the heights than ever before - not only to make a career in sports such as tennis, basketball, and car racing, but also as scientists, inventors, polit...
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Published: Jun 13, 2005
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If you want to get the dirt on George Steinbrunner, this is the book to read. Don Zimmer, bench coach for the Yankees, left after the 2003 season on less than amicable terms with its owner, and in thi...
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Published: Jun 12, 2005
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I was always interested in American Colonial and Civil War history as a child, but since I lived in Minnesota there wasn't much I could do about it except read books and go to movies, if any.
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Published: Jun 07, 2005
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The Internet is changing lives, for good or ill, every day. There's more information available on the net: more news, more gossip, more sex, lies and video, then has ever been available in one place b...
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Published: Jun 06, 2005
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Although Roger Atwood states, in the final chapter of this book, that it is possible to stop the looting of our world's cultural heritage, one really wonders if it is.
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Published: Jun 05, 2005
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Every time a "Jesus film" has been made, from the silent films which deliberately omitted the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin, to the more recent films that have not, it has always produced contro...
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Published: Jun 05, 2005
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In 1920, the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, and the "Curse of the Bambino" was begun. The Red Sox had won the World Series for the fourth time in 1918...
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Published: Jun 05, 2005
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This book is, in reality, a course in how to subtly put down your friends and complete strangers, and get exactly what you want out of life at the expense of others. It's the type of book that Marie o...
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Published: Jun 03, 2005
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There are fourteen mountains in the world which have peaks over 8,000 meters (26,000 feet) high. These peaks are in what's called the Death Zone - "an altitude above which life begins to die."
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Published: Jun 03, 2005
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The Incredibles, released in 2004, is the sixth computer animated movie by Pixar, after: Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), and Finding Nemo (2003).
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Published: Jun 03, 2005
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"There was something about describing the wind that sparked expressive language...and I think the answer is that the wind is invisible. You can't describe it because you can't see it. You can only des...
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Published: Jun 03, 2005
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Bob Cousy was the man who kept professional basketball alive in its formative years. When he began his career as a Boston Celtic in 1950, the college game was king.
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Published: Jun 03, 2005
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Seventy five years ago, in 1930, American golfer Bobby Jones achieved �the grand slam' - winning all four major tournaments of his era (the Open and Amateur championships of the United States and Gr...
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Published: Jun 02, 2005
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Hardly a month goes in which a newspaper somewhere in the United States does not report of a company closing, life-long employees suddenly without jobs that are being given to Mexico, to China, or sim...
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Published: May 27, 2005
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It's a stereotype - grounded in truth - that women are always "chattering" away and that men never listen to what they have to say. But anyone who wants to get inside the head of singer/songwriter Tor...
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Published: May 26, 2005
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What's a rogue economist? Someone who says of himself, "I'm not good at math, I don't know a lot of econometrics, and I also don't know how how to do theory." But he can look at the way the world work...
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Published: May 17, 2005
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Things haven't changed much in sixty-seven years. "People against nature" still makes for gripping tales of suspense, and the weather is as predictable now as it was then.
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Published: May 17, 2005
