Royal Dutch Shell evacuated staff from two oil installations in southern Nigeria and the military boosted troop levels in the volatile area Tuesday after a dozen village elders were killed in a riverboat attack, officials said.Bisi Ojediran, a spokesman for Shell PLC, said only a...

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson raised at least $2 million for his presidential campaign, a tally that puts him in good standing in the race for the Democratic nomination.Almost 1,000 people attended the event Thursday night at a New Mexico resort, Amanda Cooper, Richardson's deputy...

Most of Mexico's offshore oil and gas production shut down Tuesday as a weakened Hurricane Dean swirled into the Gulf of Mexico. Skeleton crews kept oil flowing near the central coast, where Dean was expected to make landfall as a stronger storm Wednesday.Normally, more than...

In the following essay, Magistrale offers a mixed assessment of King's short fiction collection Skeleton Crew and asserts that the stories focus on the same themes as King's longer fiction.

Nicholls is an Australian critic. In the following review of Skeleton Crew, he lauds King's use of colloquial images and dialect, while asserting that occasionally King's use of vulgar language or imagery is detrimental to his narratives' effectiveness as well as his characters' appeal.

In the following review, Bolotin provides a mixed assessment of Skeleton Crew.