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...Howl's Moving Castle were honored by the Oscar committee. No longer ghettoized in Saturday-morning cartoons or serial blockbusters like Ice Age and Shrek, animation now encompasses the content for mighty subindustries, including games, cartoons for television and cable, live-action special-effects films, commercials and - the latest frontier - mobile phones. Asian countries have distinct advantages in the business, in addition to relatively cheap labor. Many governments offer special tax provisions and investment incentives to attract Western studios. In South Korea, animation studios have enjoyed low-interest loans, tax breaks and infrastructure support since 1994, when the government changed...
...gringo migration grows, so do real estate prices. Ocean-view lots and houses in Costa Rica start at $200,000 today and range up to seven figures, says Edgar Santamaría, regional director for Century 21. So retirees in Costa Rica are moving to Guatemala and Nicaragua, the latest frontier, where similar plots cost a tenth of that. But home building can move at a tropical pace: 18 months after Sadlier and Budinger bought their house, and a year after they were supposed to have moved in, they're still waiting for the builders to wrap. "Mañana might mean...
...preliminary heats paired the Hawaii Club against the Juggernauts and the Mountaineering Club against the Outing Club. The final race was a battle between the non-continental states in the form of Team Hawaii and the Alaskan flag-wearing Outing Club. Spectators agreed that the Klub succeeded in bringing frontier spirit to Harvard. “I can taste the glacial water and the elegant call of the great American bald eagle,†said spectator Michael L. Manco-Johnson ’08, as he munched on the complimentary Alaskan wild salmon provided by the Klub. Members...
...cancer diagnosis than women on the same treatment with lower estrogen levels or men whose disease was diagnosed at the same time. "It's clearly the cutting edge," says Dr. James Bianco, president of Cell Therapeutics. And just the type of thinking that will push medicine to its next frontier...
Since then, the networks' arrival on the digital frontier has become less of a carefully strategized business plan and more like a crushing stampede, with almost daily pronouncements and a flurry of press releases. CBS boasts it broke new ground by selling Survivor on its website; NBC Sports trumpets that it will make $6 million from its online Olympics coverage (take that, Simon Cowell!); Disney-ABC says it will stream many of its series for free; Fox boss Rupert Murdoch remarks that his Internet services will generate $350 million in revenues this year...