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...service, which costs $15 a month, is quite good when signal strength is optimal, with very little buffering. However, when pulling up the programming guide, the audio checks out for a second and then resumes without a hitch until you switch channels. Certainly not a deal breaker in our book, but if you're a compulsive channel surfer, there's a chance it could become a nuisance...
...prototype for the movie, but when Cameron delivered a 153-page draft of the script months later, the studio balked. Here was an ambitious project with a lot of risky elements, including unproven technology, blue protagonists with tails and a script that wasn't based on a comic book, novel or video game - making it unique for a big-budget film in its time. In September 2006, Fox formally passed on Avatar. Only after another studio (Disney) seemed poised to take it on - and after Cameron made concessions in both his script and his compensation - did Fox green-light...
...edges of its empire. Later, in World War II, anthropologist Ruth Benedict played a key role in President Franklin Roosevelt's decision to allow the Japanese Emperor's reign to continue as part of Japan's surrender to the U.S. According to Price, who has written a book on the use of anthropology during World War II, the majority of American anthropologists were actively involved in the Allied war effort. One British anthropologist, Edmund Leach, even led a team of ruthless Kachin fighters - the indigenous group he was studying in Burma - against the nation's Japanese occupiers...
...Lee’s book, The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, explores the historical and cultural presence of Chinese food in America and was featured on the New York Times bestseller list as well as many prominent television programs such as The Colbert Report and The Today Show after its March 2008 publication...
...Jenny has told me she plans to pursue her interests in the emerging new forms of journalism and the business models that will support it, at The Times and at other news institutions. She also is a successful book author, and plans to continue as a writer and journalist...