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Thanks to the Web, new companies become global from the get-go rather than at a later phase, Bolen explains. And localization companies don't just deal in words but also the look, feel and design of text images. "We ask if buttons and keys scale to match the size of the text," he says, noting German characters are 30% longer than those in English, while those in Japanese are 30% shorter...
...Chistopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden have all visited Hollywood. Some come to test the waters; others are raising money. But all of them are looking for face-time with celebrities, entertainment industry heavyweights and Hollywood's Democratic powerbrokers. "I call this the courting phase," says Los Angeles political consultant Andy Spahn, who gets a call almost every day from a politician or his aide inquiring about a meeting with his clients, the Dreamworks power bloc of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...
...soon to tell how effective these laws will be. "We're in the experimentation phase," Favre says. "We're taking the American approach of trying a hundred different things and then seeing what works best in 10 years." The Denver ordinance has survived court challenge, but earlier this year a Toledo, Ohio, ordinance that allowed only one pitbull per household was struck down by an appellate court, which said the law was unreasonable and discriminatory...
...tell you that it’s not unusual that we’ve spent less than half because the largest event is Yardfest since there is a huge artist fee,” he said. In its first year, the CEB has encountered some difficulty in the planning phase, Petrich said, noting that the inaugural board was elected in May and only had a few months to plan the events. “I think it’s been a difficult semester. We had a very short term,” she said...
...preoccupied with an perceived flaw in your appearance, a new Harvard study might help. Dr. Sabine Wilhelm, associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Clinic and Research Unit at Mass. General Hospital, is currently recruiting subjects for the second phase of a clinical study testing the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in treating body dismorphic disorder (BDD). People with BDD often obsess over their physical appearance to an unhealthy extreme. Unlike eating disorders, which show a disproportionate incidence among women, BDD is evenly represented between the genders. According...