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...Airpouf ! This home appliance doubles as a piece of furniture, with holes for a draft tube, start button and air vent. On its DC15 Animal vacuum with the Ball, Dyson swapped rear wheels for a motorized ball to keep the center of gravity near the floor and suck up pet hair with a twist of the wrist?no more push and pull. Finally, German manufacturer Sebo's Felix Fun in retro orange and purple was designed flat to the floor for maneuverability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A to Z | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

France is not at all threatened by “massive immigration from countries of the Third world,” as Adomanis states, unreflectively parroting one of French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen’s pet arguments. There is no “invasion” of foreigners in France at the moment. French immigration laws are extremely strict. Most of the rioters come from families who have been in France for 30 or 40 years and have full French citizenship. Why are some French citizens called “foreigners” when they are not? This...

Author: By Virginie Greene and Alice A. Jardine | Title: France’s Riots Were Not Merely Due To Cultural Heterogeneity | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

Where's Ross Perot when you need him? As the year winds down, Congress is rushing to finish doling out money to federal programs. But amid all the haggling over deficit-reduction bills, some pet projects haven't exactly been put on the chopping block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Budget Cuts: It's Super Pork! | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...PET RX: NOTHING TO SNIFF AT Heart-failure patients fare much better--with lower anxiety and stress-hormone scores--when visited in the hospital by dogs rather than people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctor's Orders: Nov. 28, 2005 | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...relatively small space, letting the driving drum and bass fill in and envelop me. The Avalon’s cavernous ceilings and multiple levels allowed some of this intimate power to escape up to the rafters, rendering some songs, especially anxiously sparse songs like “The Infinite Pet,” a little less soulful than they seem from within the cab of a 1992 Mazda pickup. This was no fault of Spoon’s, and they certainly managed to convey a great deal of their enjoyment to the audience. Turning around often to smile and communicate...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spoon Digs Into Crowd at Avalon | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

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