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...them and getting them to movie theaters, calls for more creative solutions. Avica, which makes servers, wants to digitize all 500-odd screens in Ireland using private funding. In its bid to convert 500 screens across Europe by 2007, Belgian firm XDC will charge theater owners a small monthly fee and make up the difference itself. And at Disney, which recently installed 84 digital projectors in the U.S. to show a 3-D version of its big-buzz animation Chicken Little, senior vice president of technology Chris Carey says compromise is key: "Exhibitors, distributors and technology providers can all make...
...sale was small, but it showed that the new Governor was determined to find savings anywhere she could, from having all state agencies join together to bid for computers to asking state housekeeping workers to wear their own pants instead of government-issued ones. Through spending cuts, fee increases and some borrowing, Sebelius was able to balance Kansas' budget in her first year in office without raising taxes or cutting funding for education...
What is the TSA worried about these days? Long lines, which annoy travelers and make choice terrorist targets. To speed things up, the agency is taking its Registered Traveler program nationwide in June. Passengers who enroll--pay a fee and get a background check and biometric scans--will be fast-tracked through security. The program, along with fewer prohibited carry-on items, should help the TSA's 45,000 screeners spend less time confiscating cuticle clippers. The hope is that by creating a voluntary database that identifies frequent flyers, the measures will also reduce reliance on racial profiling. Sounds smart...
...Baghdad. I’ll leave the comparable horror of nuclear disaster up to your imagination. From the single-tear no-friends tenor of your note, I bet you read sci-fi. You probably have braces too. Anyway, if you’re going to complain, write to Stephen Fee. Yours, The FM Ethicist
...separations between parents and children, such as the one in place in Paraguay, would reduce these problems. While Bartholet also agreed that poverty is a driving factor behind women’s choices to put their children up for adoption, she said she did not believe that the adoption fee motivates women to give up their children. “Money given to biological parents by adoptive parents rarely makes the difference in the choice whether or not to give up their child,” Bartholet said. Ortiz said that a dearth of social services in poor countries...