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...Sound, Texas, enrolled for academics in the $9,750-a-year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility I need," says Hunt. "The workload is the same, but I can do it anywhere. It's nicer to ask a question face-to-face with a teacher, but in some ways it prepares me better for college because I have to be more independent." A year ago, Hunt's world junior ranking was 886; now it's 108. Virtual high schools, which allow students to take classes...
While such extras may verge on the excessive, having background footage and extra features is far nicer than just silly screen-saver animations, especially when DVDs have so much space for extras anyway, and when the films themselves are as fun as Hellboy. Only a few recent DVDs, including the special editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, can, with justification, rival Hellboy’s encyclopedic treatment of the imaginaries and pools of ink that gave rise to its film version. Of course, only the devil knows what kind of tome we’ll get after...
...think the food is the same,” Black said, “but the place is so much nicer that it makes the food taste better...
...Americans. I think that you can have the tools of privilege without losing touch with regular lives. We started out, as Teresa did, with not the kind of means that we have today, and we haven't changed the way we live very drastically, except we live in a nicer house and we drive a nicer car. But we still try to not spend extravagantly. It is an enormous difference to have that economic safety net that most Americans don't have...
...choice for celebrities who are too cool for the crowds. As in the Palms, the casino--which is on a different floor from the lobby and contains a food court--is for local regulars and the rooms are for tourist regulars. The Fertittas are building an even nicer hotel called Red Rock Station Resort and Casino, which they say will flood natural light into the casino. "It's way too competitive for that old-style casino of no bathrooms in restaurants and no TVs in the rooms," says Lorenzo, referring to layouts designed to send customers to the gaming areas...