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...ultra-light DVD packaging. (The movie bombed, but at least it made a lighter impact on the Earth when it did.) This season the action show 24 will set the standard for green production, with all-recycled scripts, biodiesel power and LED lights. (Jack Bauer will not begin chasing terrorists in an L.A. city bus, however.) Given Hollywood's penchant for copying success, if a hit like 24 goes green, expect the rest to follow...
...Another of Rudd's key election promises was to pull Australian troops out of Iraq. But not all of them, and not right now. Instead, Rudd has said he will "begin negotiations with the Americans and Iraqis" on the withdrawal, in mid-2008, of one-third of the Australian troops in Iraq and the Gulf. A thousand will remain, to the dismay of Labor's antiwar left wing, and more may be sent to train Iraqi soldiers in Jordan or Oman. Rudd will consider sending more troops to join the 1,000 in Afghanistan...
...Explaining what it means to be a dancer, d’Amboise described the fetus’s experience in the womb, a motif he would return to in his discussion of “Apollo.”“The blood is pumping and they begin to feel rhythm through movement. Momma’s running for the bus, Momma’s asleep,” d’Amboise said. “So we are born of movement. We are born of rhythm. We are born of the expression of time...
...prices is the result of a national law that recently went into effect: the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act. The measure removes incentives for pharmaceutical companies to provide contraception to university health centers and low-income community clinics at sharply discounted prices. Removing this incentive caused drug companies to begin selling the contraceptives at open market prices, and forced university and community health centers to either pass the increase in cost on to patients or stop carrying prescription contraception altogether. This is the case at our own University Health Services-affiliated pharmacy—though most students were switched to cheaper...
...sure." To which one can only say, Ha ha ha. A recent study of Arkansas, conducted by the nonpartisan Urban Institute, estimated that immigrants there pay more in Social Security and sales taxes than they cost in social services like health care and education. That doesn't begin to take into account the economic impact of the hard work and entrepreneurial energy that illegal immigrants bring to the society. To be sure, there is a need for greater border security in a time of terrorism. But any candidate who claims to be able to shut down the border simply...