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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...canine canon expands again with Hotel for Dogs, in which two kids find a way to house, feed and, crucially, toilet train more than a dozen strays. Plus, the kids are orphans. If by the end of the film you don't want to adopt something, check your pulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema's Best Friend | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...Check MateIf you're worried about splitting the bill, Post says it's fine for small parties to ask for separate checks at the outset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Recession Etiquette Lesson With: Peggy Post | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...Besides, as Cosey adds, if all goes well, students will be getting cash incentives for their work soon after graduating - in the form of a paycheck. "Most of us wouldn't turn up at work every day if we weren't getting a check," she says. "What's wrong with starting the payment a little early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid for Good Grades? | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...instance, Georgia’s recent senatorial runoff election resulted in a similarly small margin, there would have been no possible hand recount. Georgia’s electronic voting machines are paperless—electronic machines typically don’t allow for a hand recount to double check the electronic tally. In contrast, every Minnesota voter marked a paper ballot. This allowed officials to go back and at least try to discern for whom each person voted...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: In the Land of 10,000 Lakes | 1/13/2009 | See Source »

...experience with Continental was just the opposite. As I approached the check-in counter, laden with two large suitcases to study abroad, the Continental counter person noted that one of my bags was one pound over the limit. But she followed up by saying my other bag was ten pounds below the limit. It was illogical, she explained, to reduce me to the humiliation of opening my bags right there and transferring one extra pound of items to the other bag. I was saved. I was loved. And for the cheap fare I had paid, I was shocked...

Author: By Matthew H. Ghazarian | Title: No Free Lunch | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

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