What are you in there?"Dumb dialogue (cont.): Some more forgettable quotes, from the book "Stupid Movie Lines -- The 776 Dumbest Things Ever Uttered on the Silver Screen":* "It's great to eat under an open sky, even if it is radioactive."-- Frankie Avalon as he picnics in L.A. know that the surf spot County Line isn't on the county line (that's a place called Heavens), or that Zeroes isn't the one with all the zeroes in the address (that's called Staircase)? We know because someone told us. On June 30, he wrote: "They are getting tired of waiting for a 'gooney' dame who doesn't seem to be aware of the annoyance the delays have made."The diary was unknown to Earhart scholars until September, when a typewritten copy was bought on eBay by a member of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or TIGHAR. "She'd say, 'Are you keeping a close watch on Cory? 'Cause she's getting her picture all over the Internet.' I'd say, 'Oh, it's just that Mark is shooting her and he's smitten.' And she'd say, 'You should get into her MySpace, because I think this is really big.'"But, Jinx says, she had neither the will nor the computer savvy to imagine what might be happening in the alternative universe of Cory's online persona. Countywide, 2006 median prices -- the point at which half of the homes sold for more, half for less -- were up 2.7%, a poor showing compared with increases of 12.2% in 2005 and 29.2% in 2004.During the next 10 months, Schniepp predicts "a 'Goldilocks condition' in the economy to prevail: not too hot, not too cold.

Schubert, 57, the third major candidate in the race, who trails Castro and Hardberger. Broida -- a Los Angeles real estate developer and contemporary art collector who has been closely allied with New York for many years and once planned to build his own museum there -- has given 174 pieces from his collection to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.The donation, reportedly worth about $50 million, includes 36 works by Philip Guston, a rough-and-tumble painter who mixed brash figurative imagery with social satire, and 18 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints by Vija Celmins, known for transforming ordinary objects into intensely observed images of contemplation.Broida, 71, who has cancer, made the gift as part of an effort to settle his estate. In the pocket, she keeps her lines from the last episode, along with cough drops she squirreled away when she was in Paris filming the final scenes.Last year she took the parka with her to every new film -- even to New Orleans, where she shot "Failure to Launch" during the hot and humid summer months."I have certain crazy rituals in my life that I just cling to because, foolishly, I think they're going to protect me from any sadness, disappointment," she said, grinning at her melodramatic tone "It just makes me feel some sort of comfort and safety ... They can sue creditors to prevent them from taking measures that violate bankruptcy law. Authorities allege that the son, Thomas Alan Hinds Jr., met the girl on a telephone service popular with local teenagers and then lured her to the home with the help of Thomas Alan Hinds Sr., 50."What she didn't know was that Mr Hinds Sr. 2 pencils" planning them.Rey said the Clinton prohibitions included more than 2 million acres where roads had been built and precluded fire prevention work near rural towns.Environmentalists scoffed at that argument, saying most of the land near development -- where fire prevention measures were most needed -- was not federally owned."They are going to target roadless areas that have commercial timber that industry is interested in, and the pro-industry governors in Western states are going to help them," said Sean Cosgrove, the Sierra Club's national forest specialist.

In an ABC/Washington Post survey this week, Bush's approval rating in the East stood at 27%, much lower than in any other region.Joe Courtney, the Democrat running against Simmons, feels that wind at his back. The two countries share a 2,500-mile border, parts of which are not properly demarcated or are marked by rivers that occasionally shift course, sparking territorial disputes.Although relations generally have been stable in recent years, tensions along the border have increased since India began fencing off the boundary to keep out what it describes as illegal immigrants and "cross-border insurgents."At the same time, some observers fear that political parties in Bangladesh may be fomenting border violence in hopes of capitalizing on anti-India sentiment in upcoming national elections, due by the end of January.Each country accuses the other of provoking the skirmishes.Shivajee Singh, inspector general of India's Border Security Force, said that from Jan. Often he must bow out of family excursions with his wife and 8-year-old son."Now at a flight of stairs, I have to find a handrail and take it one step at a time, like a little old man," Toby said. criteria -- they are all strong democracies with considerable economic status and large populations, and all make sizable contributions to the U.N.Unfortunately, the Bush administration has put forth its own plan, one that neither opens the door to these four aspirants nor provides sufficient new representation from other regions of the world.

Smith, Caro and Chillida became known for explorations in ironworking, the area Gonzalez opened to fine art.A traveling exhibition aspires to properly introduce Gonzalez to U.S audiences On view at USC Fisher Gallery through Oct. Most scientists look at smell in mice and rats, which, like us, have tens of millions of cells devoted to detecting odors. The Dodgers intend to interview Ned Colletti, vice president and assistant general manager of the San Francisco Giants, for their general manager opening.Colletti, 50, has been affiliated with the Giants for 11 years, the last nine as General Manager Brian Sabean's assistant, and is well thought of in baseball circles, particularly as a negotiator.Dodger owner Frank McCourt fired general manager Paul DePodesta on Oct. Shaun Alexander came within a yard of winning the rushing title last season and has scored 70 touchdowns in the past four years.2 ARIZONA CARDINALSArrivals: J.J. Microsoft pledged to appeal.San Rafael, Calif.-based Autodesk was ordered to pay $18 million imposed by the jury and $322,000 in legal fees, plus interest.. Coleman, a freshman, was limited to minus-two yards in six carries. Jones said her Geological Survey office is taking preliminary steps to test whether early information from quakes could provide rapid warnings without generating an unacceptable level of false alarms.

The Middle Kingdom is expected to produce 6.4 million cars and trucks next year and surpass Germany to become the third-largest vehicle manufacturer in the world.Although most of the vehicles will be for China's own burgeoning market, a growing number of the nation's 100-plus automakers are also eyeing Europe and North America.Hebei Zhongxing Automobile in Baoding, about 85 miles south of Beijing, is negotiating with Mel Rapton Honda in Sacramento to sell its light trucks and SUVs priced at $10,000 -- about half the cost of the lowest-priced SUV currently on the U.S market. His selection: A T-shirt with the Marines logo and the slogan "Fixing the Army's Mistakes Since 1775."The local paper ran a story about the deployment announcement, but if there was any buzz, it was lost in the pre-Christmas bustle."You don't see [a deployment announcement] weaving its way through the community as much," said David Nydegger, chief executive officer of the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce "People are busy with their lives.". But what makes a particular buzz of protons and electrons a tree and another buzz a human being? True, the particles take on different patterns in a human and a tree, but at bottom, Frayn writes, it is human perception and human language that identify one pattern of particles as "tree" and another as "Donald Rumsfeld." Despite the apparently objective nature of trees and people as the "traffic" of fundamental stuff, their existence depends crucially, for Frayn, on their trafficking with our human senses.According to playwright-philosopher Frayn, humans emerge front and center on the stage of existence. It took 39 minutes.That was the norm in my tests in heavy traffic: The actual driving time was almost always about double the device's estimate.Also, the unit adjusts only for delays caused by accidents and other events, but not the normal crush of L.A traffic. "This budget can work if Congress resists the temptation to raise your taxes."The White House said it was aware of Micron's former legal difficulty before Bush's visit."From what we could see, they followed all the procedures in dealing with the Department of Justice and cooperated as required," said Deputy White House Press Secretary Tony Fratto.A Micron spokesman said the company, which is based in Boise, Idaho, had cooperated with the department's probe, a step that he said protected it from the risk of criminal penalty.james.gerstenzang.