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...Circus performers can twist themselves into pretzels and somersault through rings of fire, but even they are struggling to jump through new hoops set up by the U.K. immigration authorities. In November, the British Home Office introduced a points-based system to crack down on illegal immigration and create what its website describes as "a significantly more straightforward and transparent structure." It's easy enough for foreign trapeze artists and acrobats to secure the requisite points for entry into Britain based on their unique skills. But ringmasters say various problems with the new system - including faulty computer software and poorly...
...year, it was down to around 351,000 copies. Unlike VG, however, the Guardian has bet its building that the future lies in so-called media integration - the same single staff for newsprint, Internet and the video and audio reportage that are increasingly turning Internet news into a multimedia circus. The Guardian's new headquarters in the King's Cross area of London - it moved in December - houses enough video studios and fancy hardware to allow the Guardian to compete not just with other newspaper sites, but with...
...Until Goody's cancer diagnosis - revealed to her as she filmed the Indian version of Big Brother, called Bigg Boss, alongside her erstwhile nemesis Shetty - a small number of Britons somehow avoided the Goody circus. They failed to buy either of her memoirs, Jade: My Autobiography and Jade: Catch a Falling Star; they never dabbed her fragrance, Shh ... Jade Goody, behind their ears; they didn't perform physical jerks to any of her five fitness DVDs or try recipes from her cookbook; they even missed her many broadcast and print appearances. Yet enough of their compatriots did these things...
...those who enjoy concerts, sporting events, Broadway shows, or even the Ringling Brothers Circus, Ticketmaster is a necessary evil. The company makes it easy to find seats at most major venues in the U.S. (and many abroad) and various events are aggregated on one easy-to-use web site. What rankles customers, though, is the fact that Ticketmaster's behemoth status seems to give them the ability to impose expensive fees on top of standard ticket prices. (See TIME's Top 10 Songs...
Once Scopes was indicted and the trial began in July, hundreds of newspaper reporters descended on the town to cover the circus-like event, which featured fully clothed chimpanzees performing on the courthouse lawn and a fair bit of ridicule from newspaper columnist H.L. Mencken, who declared that residents were little more than backward "yokels...