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...These scenes, along with the rest of the film, were shot on the windswept fields and mountains of New Zealand, in an unmistakable attempt to recall the heroic vistas that Jackson found there. As the press materials prominently note, Adamson, like Jackson, is a born-and-bred Kiwi.“Andrew is from New Zealand and he knew what his country had to offer,” Johnson is quoted as saying in a four-page press release (“New Zealand / New Thinking”) provided at the junket.ACTING THEIR AGEThe film’s cast follows...
Take Bill, who put down his groceries to speak to me on a snowy morning outside Charlesview this weekend. He chose to be identified only by his first name. Bill was born and bred in the apartments and has lived there his entire life. His mother was born on the site, too, long before the complex went up in its present form in the late...
Activists estimate that 200,000 puppies are bred and sold each year in Lancaster County. The public's fascination with new designer dogs like the puggle (a cross between a pug and beagle) as well as the ease of buying a dog on websites like nextdaypets.com has only increased demand. And with that has come a backlash, especially in states like Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri, where there is a high concentration of breeders. There, and even at the national level, a movement is under way to ensure that the U.S.'s most popular house pets, many of which...
Animal-rights advocates contend that commercially bred dogs can be spared much of their misery with just the most basic improvements. "Do they have to be confined to cages 24 hours a day, bred with no limit on the number of litters and no required socialization with other dogs or with humans?" asks Josette Aramini, cofounder of the new United Against Puppy Mills group in Lancaster. The organization has worked to shutter large-scale breeders by petitioning local zoning boards to deny them permits...
...many of us are still unsure of how best to make use of our broadly-educated selves. There is a certain ambivalence and uncertainty in our generation’s ethical dimension—manifested in our political apathy, lukewarm career choices, etc. We are a group that is bred to pursue “greatness” and as a result do not always devote enough attention to the concept of “goodness.” We are not explicitly amoral, but we often remain ultimately passive on critical moral issues merely because of the complexities...