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...publicity, so they "can experience the Disney magic themselves [and] better share it with their passengers." And even if attendance lags for a while, Disney says the park is already benefiting its other businesses in Asia. Andy Bird, president of Walt Disney International, says there's been "a noticeable lift in our brand and character awareness" in China since the park's opening?for example, sales of Buzz Lightyear merchandise have jumped, in part because the character features in Disneyland's popular Astro Blasters ride. David Miller, an analyst at investment-banking firm Sanders Morris Harris in Los Angeles, agrees...
...matches.Georgetown University, the University of California-Los Angeles, and the United States Military Academy at West Point are all among the clients that TurnItIn now lists.Will Harvard hop on the bandwagon?Not anytime soon, say administrators and instructors here.TURNING THE TABLESThe Internet makes it easier for students to lift passages from other sources. But it also makes it easier to catch the copiers.The creator and chief executive of TurnItIn, John Barrie, said his software is an indispensable tool.“All the other methods, such as proctors and honor codes, are the status quo. That is what people have...
...They had no reason to be suspicious: Tuesday was family day at the clinic and Kugenthirasah had been coming for weeks. A guard offered her a lift. She arrived at the clinic just as the commander of the Sri Lankan army, Lt.-Gen. Sarath Fonseka, was leaving his nearby office for lunch. Eyewitnesses say Kugenthirasah walked away from the clinic and strode toward Fonseka's heavily guarded convoy. A motorcycle outrider spotted her, says military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. Her determined manner, that bump-it didn't look right. The outrider swerved, blocked her path and, when she kept coming...
...V610 is not the first two-lens camera from Kodak. It follows closely on the heels of the EasyShare V570, launched in January. The V570 uses its second lens for ultra wide-angle shots ? four people crammed into a chair lift, for example. The V610, as you can guess, has a telephoto lens as its Number Two, to achieve super zoom...
...moratorium has had no practical effect and I think it would be good to lift it,? said Thomas Brown, the chief prosecutor for rural Livingston County, who won a new death sentence for the only person who was cleared from Death Row by Ryan but then returned for a separate murder case. ?We?ve had to start filling it back up one by one, and there?s no case that?s ripe yet so it could be 15 or 20 years of appeals before anyone actually is executed (if the moratorium gets lifted). There?s this push for perfection...