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...group, the number of reported cases involving animal abuse, cruelty or neglect nearly tripled from 1996 to 2000. In a more recent case, a woman in Gautier, Miss., called the police on Dec. 4, 2002, when she noticed two Doberman pinschers, one dead and the other emaciated, in a pen in her neighbor's yard. The case went to court the next month, and the dogs' owner, a junior high school teacher, was found guilty of animal cruelty and fined $1,000. Thanks to a rescue group, the surviving Doberman was nursed back to health and placed...
...Thirty-eight years later (note the symmetry), Utzon is back - if not in body, at least in spirit. In 1999, the elderly architect was invited by the Opera House Trust to pen a set of design principles for the ageing building. Three years later, Utzon was employed as principal architect in a $A69 million improvement plan, to be supervised by his son Jan, and Sydney-based Richard Johnson. His first completed interior, a $A4 million chamber-music and function hall, was unveiled in September. "It's inspirational to work with a genius," says architect Johnson. What better time, then...
...process so that the chair of the Election Committee must send a campus-wide e-mail several hours prior to the annual council election to notify the school of the offices open for election. At least one hour prior to the start of voting, the council vice president must pen a message to the school alerting them to the commencement of voting...
None of this would matter, necessarily, if this were just some hack novelist who was inaccurately depicting college life with the clumsy log of his pen. But the author is Tom Wolfe, a man whose celebrated eye for cultural detail leads those who know little of his chosen subject to accept his account as truth. In a famous 1988 essay entitled “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast,” Wolfe lambastes his literary contemporaries for not trying to accurately document the frenetic vagaries of our nation’s reality, the “irresistibly lurid carnival...
You’ll have as much fun as Inspector Gadget when the text you highlight gets scanned into a digital format. The IRISPen Express Text Recognition pen scanner can read almost any font, as well as 55 languages. Since it reads 1000 characters a second, it won’t slow you down. If you want to scan full pages, Planon System Solutions’ DocuPen is the smallest option out there. With an advanced charging feature that recharges the pen every time you upload data to your computer, you’ll always have enough juice to finish...