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GEORGE W. BUSH wants to put Congress on a diet. Next week he will release details from his budget, with more specifics about his plan to eliminate close to 6,000 earmarks--those pet projects that lawmakers fund by going around the budget process. He should have an ally in JOHN MCCAIN, who has been trying unsuccessfully for years to eliminate these extra items that balloon government spending. Why are earmarks so hard to get rid of? Because one person's wasteful pork is another person's vital program. Bush is already being attacked for his plans to eliminate earmarks...
...plan never got off the ground. A couple years later Cooper was asked by newly appointed RKO studio head David O. Selznick to compile an inventory of every piece of film in the library. Cooper came across some sequences from an unfinished stop-action animation film called "Creation," the pet project of animator Willis O'Brien (more on him in a moment). As soon as Cooper saw the footage, he realized that Komodo Island could be created in-house for a fraction of the cost of an expedition...
...stock market (especially technology companies) has been beaten down so much that there's only upside left, at least in the long term. When the market overreacts by punishing great companies like Cisco or Yahoo as much as it has hurt companies that should never have existed (like online pet supply stores with asinine mascots), then you know that now is the best time...
...shrewd strategy: make it easy to use, easy to pay for and loaded with gimmicky content to dazzle and entertain Web novices. "The Internet scared Japanese people," says Yukiko Takahashi, a manager at Bandai Networks, a subsidiary of the toy company that gave the world the Tamagotchi virtual pet and created rudimentary games that have been big hits on i-mode. "It made people think about connecting a PC, using a keyboard, modems, ISDN lines, stuff they didn't understand and stuff that cost too much. The smartest thing DoCoMo did was not to use the word Internet...
...time to legally recognize the potential threat that certain breeds of dogs pose to public safety. As the owner of four dogs, two retrievers, one small poodle mix and a German shepherd, I can say without a doubt that my German shepherd is far more than a wet-nosed pet; his reaction to a perceived threat against me or my child could be a fatal...