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...choices for faith. He sought to remind us that she who would make a real choice, a difficult choice, must be prepared for the world to reject or punish her for what she believes. Without this risk, a choice is insignificant. Against our own mindless choices of paper or plastic, Chevy or Ford, this Pope pointed us in the direction of those choices that make us fully human...
...banking on Americans' increasing obsession with their pets, which is fueling 6% annual growth in the $34 billion pet-care industry. "Pets are the new kids," she says, noting that young couples see pets as a parenting test run. Dog day care, pet-custody battles and even plastic surgery for animals testify to America's humanization of pets. Nemeth, who says her Balinese cat, Symphony, "talks" to her, knows her market. She spent thousands on wheelchairs and a hyperbaric chamber when her dog Kicsi was dying of spinal-cord degeneration. Nemeth's salespeople teach pet care to their customers, much...
...song for a love song). It's better seen as New York City's joke on the California dream, by stage veterans Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft and director Mike Nichols. The film caps its triumphal happy ending by having its lovers stare into the future and the suburban, plastic life yawning at them. THE WILD RIDE He was just 23 in 1960, but Jack Nicholson had already perfected the Jack Nicholson attitude: the bedroom eyes, the insult of a pearly smile, the preter-natural cocksureness. "I don't break the law," he sneers at a cop. "I make...
...revenue problem." This seemed palpably ridiculous, given that California is 42nd in the nation in per-pupil education spending. But the Governor wasn't budging, and our conversation drifted into his standard riffs, some of them quite entertaining, about the "dinosaurs" in Sacramento who introduce bills about "plastic surgery for dogs and where you can park ice cream trucks and condom distribution in prisons" but who refuse to negotiate on his proposed reforms. Schwarzenegger is right to be scornful, but there is an obvious deal to be made here-real reform in exchange for new revenues-and it will take...
...begin enjoying it - a rechargeable battery, power cord, memory stick, earbuds with remote control, strap and case with chamois cloth - except for a game. The first million units even come with a copy of the movie Spider-Man 2 in Sony's new Universal Media Disc format. A plastic-encased 1.8GB-capacity digital disc the size of a chocolate chip cookie, UMDs are a PSP-only media source, carrying games, movies and possibly music, although no music UMDs are available at this time. There are no writable UMDs either, so you will not be able to copy your library...