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Employees who were paying nothing are now paying something, and those who were paying something are paying more.”The telephone poll of 1,000 adults was the ninth such annual survey, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.Separately, two studies published Tuesday offered mixed reviews for President Bush’s main healthcare proposal. Mel Gibson is shipping an eight-lane bowling alley to his private Pacific island in northern Fiji, a shipping company official said.The gear is being loaded on a small local cargo ship at the port in Fiji’s capital, Suva, for delivery to Mago Island, the official said.The director of “The Passion of the Christ” and star of the “Mad Max” films purchased the 5,411-acre Mago Island — the largest privately owned island in the Fiji archipelago — from Japan’s Tokyu Corp for about $15 million in late 2004.. They answered amusingly, but I won’t repeat their responses here (the conversation can be streamed or downloaded at the company’s website) because they suffer too much from being taken out of musical context.Those loopy lines, in fact, were exactly what was needed to inspire Tippett’s otherworldly, chance-taking music, music not afraid to soar and soar some more. Todd Jones has replaced Mota as the closer.Mota gave up one unearned run in two rehabilitation appearances with Class-A Jupiter this week.*Triple-A Nashville Sounds pitcher Rick Helling was impaled in his left arm by a piece of a broken bat and taken to a Nashville hospital.Helling, who pitched in the major leagues for 10 seasons, was facing New Orleans’ Craig Kuzmic in the seventh inning when the bat shattered and struck his non-pitching arm.”Kuzmic fouled off a pitch, the bat shattered and it ended up in three or four shards,” Nashville team spokesman Doug Scopel said.

During that time, Watts has achieved the recognition that proves so elusive to Ellie.”Ellie Parker” is a funny, fractured valentine, celebrating the incandescence of Watts’ blond beauty and shimmering talent. But Mitchell, an adult film actress for 25 years before she earned a doctorate in human sexuality, says the adult film industry’s emphasis on youth, as well as its growing audience among beauty-conscious women, is almost certainly driving the upsurge in the surgery.And many women take the standards set by sex workers very much to heart, say doctors performing the surgeries.”I hear it time and time again,” says Dr. So we can take tomorrow off and we still have it.”The final prequel in the “Star Wars” franchise eclipsed the three-day grosses of its “galaxy far, far away” predecessors: “Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones” earned $80 million over its opening weekend in 2002 and “Episode I The Phantom Menace” took in $64.8 million in its weekend debut.Fox International said the $113-million science-fiction epic also toppled overseas box office records, grossing $144.7 million in 105 countries to defeat the previous record of $127 million set by “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” in 2003. At age 44, the father of two renegotiated his contract to exclude war reporting.Gizbert gave up the perks foreign correspondents enjoy: lucrative housing and school-fee allowances and paid home leave. The searchers included divers who plunged into 6-foot-deep pools along the creek bed to see whether Irwin might have tumbled in and drowned. Not until a tenant-rights organization drafted a court motion in 2003 did his office step in, activists said.Since the settlement, Delgadillo has accepted $15,600 from Robbins and Treitel, their businesses, relatives and associates to pay for his campaigns and political expenses, city records show.

Highlighting the environmental pitfalls of harnessing “green” energy, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s push to import nonpolluting power to Los Angeles could require building power lines and transmission towers through a national forest, two desert wildlife preserves and a rustic hamlet used in countless westerns.According to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the 85-mile-long “Green Path” energy corridor designed to bring solar, geothermal and nuclear power from southeastern California and Arizona would slice across the Big Morongo Wildlife Preserve north of Palm Springs, Pioneertown near Yucca Valley, Pipes Canyon Wilderness Preserve and a corner of the San Bernardino National Forest before crossing over the Cajon Pass and connecting with existing power lines in Hesperia.More than a dozen preservation and community groups have condemned the mayor and DWP for a plan that they say would destroy priceless vistas, natural areas and wildlife corridors.”Not only is such energy consumption not ‘green,’ it is unacceptable under any name…. In memos to the administration, he often exhibited a bit of flair.He mocked a Georgia Democratic congressman who proposed to Reagan a “conference on power sharing” after a 1983 Supreme Court ruling limited Congress’ power to oversee federal regulations.”There already has, of course, been a ‘conference on power sharing,’ ” Roberts wrote. In some past disease outbreaks (such as polio), isolation or quarantine stations were set up and affected patients removed from the population. Lots of it.Authorities on Thursday found a cache containing more than 1 million rounds of ammunition and 75 firearms, ranging from small handguns to assault rifles, throughout the burning home and in a shaft and tunnel under the garage.The firefighters realized the stockpile was inside when rounds started going off. When I see what the savior has done for me, you just want to pay him back and do what he says.”Charles’ third wife, Alorah, said that although her mother was the third of four wives, her own decision to enter into plural marriage required intense prayer.”There’s a saying that is kind of common among the girls in this group, that if you can have 10% of a 100% man, instead of 100% of a 10% man, then what would you choose?”*Mary and Jane’s husband is a middle-aged AUB member, something of a real-life equivalent of Bill Henrickson, the character in HBO’s series “Big Love” who lives in the Salt Lake City suburbs with his three wives, seven children and ever-mounting bills.Over dinner at a seafood restaurant, Jane and Mary jointly make fun of their husband while he good-naturedly laughs at their quips. It’s the centerpiece of “The Other Campaign” (Open Media Series/City Lights: 176 pp., $8.95 paper) — a book credited to Marcos and the Zapatistas — where it’s sandwiched between a helpful essay by Mexican journalist Luis Hernandez Navarro and a brief interview Marcos did with KPFK-FM radio’s Aura Bogado, all laid out on facing Spanish and English pages.”The Other Campaign” lacks the poetic vibrancy that characterizes Marcos’ previous writings.