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...Based on the findings released in early January - which showed that changing the scale would slightly boost GPAs but was inconclusive about whether it would help students get into better colleges - the school board on Jan. 22 agreed to start using a higher premium for tough courses and to adopt a new variant of a 10-point grading scale...
Technology saved the music industry in the '80s. Technology also destroyed it less than 20 years later. The advent of file sharing programs like Napster, the industy's refusal to adopt new distribution methods, free-spending executives, the shrinking of radio and the increasing power of big-box retailers over devoted record stores - all have led to the present situation, where many consumers would rather steal music than pay for it. Knopper's analysis of the situation is pretty insular, however. Rather than attempting to draw parallels between music and other entertainment industries that have been rocked by the Internet...
...incoming First Lady, Michelle Obama, is also doing her part in wooing the armed forces. She has already made clear that she wants to adopt military families as her special concern. Perhaps that's why the so-called Kids' Inaugural on Monday night, featuring the Jonas Brothers, is being billed as a concert to honor military families. One of the 10 official balls the new President will attend on Tuesday night is the Commander in Chief's Ball (first held by George W. Bush); the largely enlisted crowd will get to attend free of charge in the National Building Museum...
...plot is a massive indulgence of the desire to adopt with abandon that generally happens when children visit a shelter. With the help of young pet-store employee Dave (Johnny Simmons), who provides discounted kibble and makes Andi's heart beat faster, his sassy sidekick Heather (Kyla Pratt) and a neighborhood kid (Troy Gentile), Andi and Bruce are soon actively recruiting stray dogs. The movie shifts into slapstick mode, much of it centered on the dining and bathroom habits of the hundred or so newly arrived hotel guests...
...years. On Jan. 16, the canine canon expands again with Hotel for Dogs, in which two kids find a way to house, feed and, crucially, toilet train more than a dozen strays. Plus, the kids are orphans. If by the end of the film you don't want to adopt something, check your pulse...