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...bridge in mind. "Not the Ponte dei Sospiri [Bridge of Sighs] - it's too expensive. And I'm not talking Golden Gate or Brooklyn, I'm talking one of the little bridges in Venice that goes across a calle. You need that little bridge." It might be strange to label a bridge to the wider world as "little," but in Severgnini's land of contradictions, it seems to make sense...
...whether new findings place it in a family of smaller, humbler objects. The problem is more complex than just firing a planet and downsizing the solar system from nine to eight. If you keep your definitions loose enough to retain Pluto, then you have to award the planet label to at least three similar objects in our solar system. Think Congress gets into a slapfest over the problem of immigrant workers? That's civil compared with astronomers' catfights over immigrant worlds...
...dramatically over the past year. In March 2005 the average price for a 37-in. liquid-crystal display (LCD) HDTV was a hefty $4,113; a year later, the average price had dropped to $2,333. Bargain hunters can find even better deals. This summer under its low-cost label ILO, Wal-Mart was selling a 32-in. set with a built-in HDTVtuner...
...category. The Princess Diaries' Meg Cabot will publish Avalon High next spring; additional young-adult titles will follow. In January, Simon & Schuster expanded its partnership with San Francisco--based Viz Media, a top publisher that licenses manga from Japanese publishers Shueisha and Shogakukan. Random House just launched its second label, Tanoshimi. And Canadian Harlequin will launch Ginger Blossom, romance story lines in manga, in September...
Manga is also drawing new media. Fans can download Tokyopop's "manga pods" (audio snippets). There's a music label and a MySpace site, and mobile-manga games are on the way. Tokyopop is planning TV animation and-- the ultimate crossover--a motion picture with Sony Screen Gems. Anyone for Manga Meets Spider...