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...ones. He had a brief, explosive turn as the director in Tropic Thunder, and he's popped up in Finding Amanda, Hot Fuzz, Marie Antoinette, Night at the Museum and dozens more. Either he's much in demand or his agent has been instructed never to turn down an offer. At any rate, he's the kind of highly employable performer Dana dreams of being...
...Online networks targeting pet lovers are common, but a growing subset is catering to the pets themselves, including MyCatSpace.com, Dogbook.com (part of Facebook) and Petster.com (remember Friendster?). Pets write messages to one another about shared interests and offer advice on health problems, training or local dog-friendly parks. Some have even enlisted their caretakers to arrange offline play dates. "Animals are natural social-networking beasts," says Noah Paessel, CEO of SNIF Labs, a tech firm started by a group of MIT Media Lab graduate students to study "social networking...
...ProComp proposed by superintendent Michael Bennet. The biggest sticking point is his proposal to cap base salaries while increasing performance-based bonuses. The protracted contract negotiations already led some teachers to stage sick-outs in May; others have been handing out to parents flyers denouncing the district's contract offer as school kicks off this week. And if the two sides can't resolve their differences in mediation talks, scheduled to begin Wednesday, the teachers have threatened a possible strike next week - just as thousands of Democratic Convention attendees begin to arrive in the city...
...make better use of that money, Bennet is proposing several changes that could lead to all teachers seeing a jump in their pay, some by as much as $9,000 annually. But many of those increases would come in boosts to incentive pay. And while the district's offer would raise starting salaries from $35,000 to $42,000, base salaries of more-tenured teachers would not rise...
...Amid these early signs of success, even some union members think their representatives have taken hostilities too far. One group of teachers has started an online petition for an immediate contract settlement, and more than 300 teachers have signed it. Many of these teachers believe the district's offer is not perfect but reasonable enough. "The union's position just does not make sense to me - it appears to be opposition for the sake of opposition," says Chrisanne Lahue, 47, an English teacher for 22 years and a signer of the petition. Both sides, she adds, "should just roll...