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...hour. Each shot is added as a frame to a little movie, so you can duplicate, at home, those memorable videos depicting flowers opening, or a building job getting completed at high speed. The stop-motion animation feature lets you make crazy Claymation movies or animate He-Man and GI Joe figures, like they do on Seth Green's hilarious "Robot Chicken" show...
...Then, after the war, America embraced world culture. It was only natural. GI's returning home from their first time abroad had some residual interest in the cultures of Europe and Asia; and the souvenirs they wanted were not so much of the war they'd served in as of the women - war brides and whore-brides - they had encountered. So to add a touch of exotica or erotica to their movies, American producers imported actresses from France (Corinne Calvet, Francoise Rosay), Austria (Maria Schell), Japan (Miyoshi Umeki) and especially Italy (Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana...
...operations. So much so that the country's tech employers are hugely grateful for the workers they have. "Every evening I'm almost standing at the door and asking everyone as they leave: Did you enjoy yourself and can I expect to see you tomorrow?" says Teet Jagomägi, not entirely joking. He runs a mapping software company in Tartu, the second largest city. It's doing good business in partnership with Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson, and has 70 employees. Jagomägi says he would like it to grow to about 150, but he's already lost...
...class was at the College had a noticeable effect on the makeup of the student body.“When I went [to Harvard], it was in the midst of transitioning from a college for the wealthy to a college for the wealthy and a college for the GI bill people,” he recalls, referring to 1944 federal legislation that paid for the college educations of World War II veterans.Suckow says that the presence of students on scholarships and those whose tuition was paid under the GI bill led to a more diverse student body at Harvard...
...years after it was created as a way for returning veterans to get quick high school degrees and take advantage of the GI Bill, concerns are mounting that the GED may be hurting the education system more than helping...