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It's a scenario many authors dream about: Their book becomes a smash movie. But novelist Walter Kirn a Montana resident and Minnesota native, is taking the pessimistic view as he watches the movie version of his book, "Up in the Air," soar to critical and box office success. "I'm a Minnesotan," Kirn says. "We dream too big, we're going to be humbled." Paramount's "Up in the Air" has pulled in $63.9 million in the United States in seven weeks and won raves for actor George Clooney as a slick ax-man racking up frequent-flier...
A NATO airstrike killed at least 27 Afghan civilians, officials said today, in the third coalition strike this month to kill noncombatants and draw a s h a r p r e b u k e f r o m Afghanistan's government about endangering civilians. In eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber killed 15 people today, including a tribal leader who played a key role in a failed attempt to capture al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001, police said. The top NATO commander, U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, apologized to President Hamid...
Gasoline prices almost always rise in the spring, putting an extra strain on family budgets. This year won't be an exception. But motorists shouldn't panic just yet. That's because government forecasters say drivers aren't likely to pay much more than $3 a gallon, on average, during the peak summer driving season. Expectations are that gasoline prices will average $2.84 a gallon this year, up from $2.34 in 2009. It's a modest increase compared with the past few years when oil prices rose and fell sharply. But it reflects the...
If the huge anchor and float lights hanging from the ceiling of Martin Cate's Smuggler's Cove bar don't clue you in, the stacks of barrels and ship's figurehead mounted on the wall should get you in the spirit of things: You don't come here for a dry martini, be it ever so shaken or stirred. Cate has a rum perspective on things — the bar features more than 200 from around the world. There's a rum revival going on across the country as devotees spread the word that rum is about a lot more than the cheap stuff you might have g...
Two of the hottest trends in gardening are containers and cultivating fresh food, and many savvy families are beginning to combine the two. They're growing their vegetables in pots. Improvements in potting soils and fertilizers have made this a straightforward and generally successful exercise, said Pamela Crawford, a landscape architect from Canton, Ga., who has written four books about container gardening. "It's so easy to put a tomato into a pot. It almost grows itself," Crawford said. "It's a whole different ballgame...
Violent storms that tore through the southern Plains killed five people and injured dozens more, leaving behind flattened homes, toppled semitrailers and downed power lines. Several tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma and Kansas on Monday as the storms moved through the area, dumping hail as big as baseballs, splintering mobile homes and leaving thousands of people without power. "The kids and I got in the closet and prayed," said Jamie Keyes, of Norman, an Oklahoma City suburb that is home to the University of Oklahoma. "I...
A 3-year-old boy from Washington state was struck and killed by a vehicle at a wedding near Havre over the weekend. Dustin Baxter says he, his wife Karrie and their three boys were visiting Karrie's family near Great Falls. They were at a family wedding in Beaver Creek Park on Saturday when the tragedy happened. Dustin Baxter says he had gone inside to ask for the quickest route back to Great Falls when the tragedy happened. When he came back outside, Baxter learned that someone leaving the wedding had accidentally backed...
