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...unpopular? Some say it's inherently regressive--that it affects the poor more than the rich. In reality, it tends to affect the middle class more than anyone else, especially those in the suburbs with more than one car. The truly needy tend to consume less gas than their middle-class compatriots. Others say it penalizes those in remote and rural areas. So what? Very few taxes are perfect, and our electoral system--with its over-representation of big agricultural states in the Senate--already pampers the rural. (I'd gladly exchange a gas-tax hike for abolition of agricultural...
...this kind of reprieve. "In animation," he says, "it's much easier to be revived because you don't have to rebuild sets." Or reassemble the cast. But Family Guy's resurrection does demonstrate the growing importance of DVDs to the TV business, a development that may affect what kinds of shows get made--and stay on the air--in the future. Following the success of movie DVDs, which now bring in more money than the box office, TV DVDs made more than $1 billion last year and are expected to reap even more money this year. And TV executives...
This initiative could also affect undergraduates in the near future. Kolter hopes to have microbial courses for students by spring 2005, and possibly even a course for non-concentrators by the following fall...
Green also said Pring-Wilson told him he drank one or two beers that night, but the alcohol didn’t seem to affect his behavior noticeably...
...don’t think [easier access] would affect my personal desire to go,” Bellfy said. “But if other kids would go, I’d be more likely to go to a game...