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...Commission (SEC) said the agency was considering how to shield accounting firms from civil litigation because--get this--the Administration doesn't want the Big Four firms to become the Big Three. So, on the one hand, the Justice Department is squeezing KPMG and its former employees within an inch of their professional lives. On the other hand, the SEC is pushing for limits on lawsuits that might hurt firms like KPMG. Talk about mixed messages...
...standard-sized, individually wrapped condom of the kind put in dispensers in Canaday, Weld, and Greenough last spring measures 2 inches by 2 inches and is about a quarter-inch thick. Usually made of latex or occasionally polyurethane, the modern condom can stretch to 800 percent its normal size, if necessary—both a prophylactic and a practical joke waiting to happen. As a method of birth control, it boasts a 98 percent success rate, and when used to protect against STDs, one incurs less than a quarter of the risk one might incur through unprotected sex. As prophylactics...
...balletic spear thrust. Computer-generated elephants rear up and plummet off computer-generated cliffs. The Persian King Xerxes becomes 9 ft. tall. In one scene a nubile oracle dances in a trance, her hair and her flowy, filmy wrap swirling surreally around her otherwise nude body (300 earns every inch of its R rating). There's something odd about the image that you can't put your finger on, until Snyder explains that the dancer was actually performing in a tank of water and was then digitally placed in the scene: "She looks like she's in pain...
...Crimson stole the title in 2005. Last year, Princeton pulled off an upset of Harvard to return to the top of the League and cemented its stature this year.The Tigers led at the end of all three days but the Crimson used every swimmer on its championship roster to inch closer throughout the competition.“At our dual meets during the year, we need to win as a team but the focus is less on depth than on talent,” said Papadakis, who is also a Crimson editor. “If you win an event...
...seeds that will allow you to control the end product," Linares says. "For semiconductor manufacturing, that means an extremely smooth and flat surface. For the first time, we've done that." Over the next 12 months Apollo plans to build up a generation of mother wafers at least an inch in length that can consistently beget more high-quality diamond slivers, and then to enter the industrial market...