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...Hudgins, head of the Texas Film Commission, will have to grapple with when the new funding law kicks in this fall. The commission will review movie scripts and game design plans before approving up to a 5% rebate of a film's Texas-based costs (up to a maximum of $2 million) or a $250,000 grant for a game design project; the project must have 80% of its work done within the state, and the money that will only be rewarded after it is completed. "We are going to look at the total film, not just one scene," Hudgins...
...Much of Clinton's money is expected to come from contributors who will now have given the maximum allowed under law-and who, therefore, will not be giving in future quarters. "I don't think the Clinton campaign has focused as much on small donors as they should," worries one of its fundraisers...
...surprise that there are a lot of things that can go wrong with a machine like the space station - and no shame when some of them do. The orbiting complex is 240 ft. long at its maximum, weighs 471,444 lbs. and encloses 15,000 ft. of habitable space. It is being built and maintained principally by NASA, the European Space Agency and the space agencies of Russia, Japan and Canada, an arrangement that spreads the costs and the burdens but also diffuses the responsibility. If your SUV occasionally needs a trip to the shop, imagine what it takes...
...vote, that Washington State's sentencing rules violated a kidnapper's Sixth Amendment right. Since the judge determined that the kidnapper had acted with "deliberate cruelty," the rules allowed the judge to add 37 months to the 53-month sentence. Even though 53 months was far below the "statutory maximum" of 10 years, the sentence was still unconstitutional, a conclusion that suggested the federal guidelines, which operated in a similar way, were in jeopardy...
...Even if the bill does pass, the trade will continue, Bohannon insists: "If they shut it down, they will force it underground." Mead agrees, and notes that despite rules at California's maximum security Pelican Bay prison limiting prisoners' access to artist materials, art flourishes; prisoners scrape the colors from magazine ads and use manila envelopes as canvases. Donny Johnson, a well-known Pelican Bay artist, dissolves M&M candy for his colors and uses a paintbrush made from his own hair...