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There's a teensy catch, of course. Although the movie makes no mention of it, it was entirely financed (to the tune of about $250,000) by Smile Train, an organization that seeks to fix cleft palates in children from developing countries. Smile Pinki follows the story of two of those children, Pinki and Ghutaru, from remote villages in India to a hospital in the city, to have their cleft palates fixed and their futures profoundly altered. (Children with cleft palates are often ostracized and find it difficult to get an education or to subsequently find a good...
...left; virtually every other change has been the reverse. Worried about increased accidents, tens of thousands of Samoans have protested the plan. As a Samoan lawyer opposed to the switch told the Times of London, "Cars are going to crash, people are going to die, not to mention the huge expense to our small country." (Read "Zero-Emission Cars: A Battle Among Technologies...
...overshadowed by the decorative aspects of individual pieces and fail to express any sense of atmosphere—a not-insignificant focus for the brothers. The most interesting photo depicts the incorporation of a full-grown tree into the stone terrace of one of their creations. There is mention of some of their more unique structures—the granite house of D.L. James which seems to grow from the granite cliff on which it sits, the use of landscape and flow in general—but there is a disappointing lack of emphasis on their larger triumphs beyond...
...what he might accept. Take his often repeated criticism of the public option: Obama expected it to come up during a private meeting with Grassley last spring and was prepared to explore a compromise, according to a source who is familiar with what happened. Instead, Grassley failed to even mention it, leaving it to Obama to bring up the matter - and his top aides to wonder what Grassley's real agenda...
...raised in owned - as opposed to rented - homes show higher math and reading scores and less tendency to drop out of high school. In recent years, organizations from the National Association of Realtors to the President's Council of Economic Advisers to Habitat for Humanity have made sure to mention those sorts of findings in efforts to push more people to own houses...