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...watched and paid for. "Over the next five years," says NBC Universal Television Group president Jeff Zucker, "the world is going to change. Broadcast television will remain an incredibly important vehicle in society and as a business, but you'll also see fundamental change in the way people watch content...
...which has 700 outlets in China, says it will list nutritional information on most of its packaging next year, using an easy-to-understand icon-and-bar-chart format. McDonald's already makes some information available. On a recent visit, customer Kangwei Wu saw some brochures on nutritional content at a McDonald's in Guangzhou, but, she said, "they were placed in the back corner of the restaurant where people barely noticed them." KFC, with 1,200 restaurants, began rebuilding its image in China last summer. On its Chinese website, KFC presented a 1950s revolutionary-style picture of a fist...
...caused the levee breaks that flooded 80% of the city--for as long as four weeks in some areas. The improved levees will be 17 ft. high, vs. 12 ft. to 13 ft. pre-Katrina. With $8 million pending for a two-year Category 5 study, the mayor seems content to bide his time. "There is no science to build a Category 5 levee protection now anyway," says Nagin...
...Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) meet in the summer of 1963 when they sign on to tend a herd of sheep on the eponymous peak, which director Ang Lee locates high in ravishing Marlboro Country. Ennis is a slow-drawling man's man, a simple soul content to live out a life of low-paying odd jobs. Jack is more restless--a not very successful rodeo rider when the spirit moves him but also a man for other, upwardly mobile opportunities. He's the one who initiates their first sexual encounter, although in the act itself he plays...
...what the characters had to say,” Jefita said. He also said that during the parts where the action was far more verbal than physical, he focused on the interpreters so that he could get the academic and historical gist of the play’s content. But during parts where the acting was very flamboyant, Jefita focused his attention on the actors and managed to glean what was happening through their movements and body language. “Slavs!” may be in essence a play completely made up of discussions—about philosophy...