Word: agee
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States wouldn't have to abide by the ruling, but there would be heavy pressure to conform, since states that don't adopt the mandate could lose their highway funds. "The national 21 minimum drinking age and the .08% law [for allowable alcohol in the bloodstream] both resulted from federal highway sanctions. History tells us that this approach works," says Laura Dean-Mooney of MADD. So far only 11 states require interlocks for anyone with one conviction who is currently driving on a DUI-restricted license...
...prevent illness at any age...
...this new movie, they make the discovery that underneath their icy home is a whole new world, tropical and overrun with dinosaurs. You would think this would cause an existential crisis (Ice Age: Finally Over?) for the menagerie, but they're too focused on their various parenting crises to think bigger picture. Ellie and Manny are having a baby, opening the door to a series of crassly anthropomorphic references to her hormones and his paternal anxieties. The baby hasn't even arrived yet, but Diego is already pouting over feeling left...
...best character in the third Ice Age is a shameless rip-off of one of the most tried and true characters in recent cinematic history. Given the rest of the franchise, the limited creativity is not surprising. But what's really frustrating about the movie is how little attention it pays to its youthful audience. Beyond the cliff-teetering physical comedy, which always works - the acorn-loving squirrel Scrat returns, reminding us of the joys of old-fashioned voiceless animation - there is barely anything here that's really meant for kids...
...Israeli military justice. Most onerous, says Sarit Michaeli of the Israeli human-rights group B'Tselem, is that inside the territories, the Israeli military deems any Palestinian who is 16 years and older as an adult, while inside Israel, the U.S. and most other countries, adulthood is reached at age...