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...Pleasant Rowland, a former teacher and newscaster, launched American Girls 12 years ago in Middleton, Wis., precisely to offer girls an alternative to the unnaturally proportioned Barbie. Yet in July, Rowland sold her company to Barbie's corporate parent, Mattel, for $700 million--and a promise that American Girls would retain its separate identity...
...people who have never been in an IMAX theater, or who have only seen the shows on flat rectangular screens, the five-story dome of the museum's Omni Theater is quite a pleasant shock. The screen curves and stretches upward on all sides until the panels catch up with each other and meet harmoniously in a perfect half-sphere, forming a deceivingly delicate, pearly shell that encompasses and dominates the audience for the entire show. The viewer might be tempted to complain about neck strain, but the seats do recline. Besides, when the movie actually starts, one will realize...
Nicholi quoted Lewis to give the Christian perspective on this issue, which is a part of a stated goal of the lecture series. The quote displays Lewis's reason for the transient quality of happiness: "The Creator refreshes the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not allow us to mistake them...
...just wonderful and then someone explains that just because it seems to say that all public schools will be beautifully rebuilt, it actually means they are shutting down all of them and building deportation centers for illegal immigrants in their stead. So I feel tentative as I read the pleasant descriptions. What do they really mean? The Boston Globe sheds no light...
...design. Which is why Laura Hartwig may become a very popular woman. She's the matron--and the face on the label--of the three-year-old Santa Laura winery in Chile's Colchagua Valley. The vineyard's Cabernet Sauvignons are full of lavish spice and berry flavors, with pleasant touches of vanilla and chocolate, all for just $10 a bottle. Chilean wines like Hartwig's are in demand at Wine Brats, a Gen-X club in Santa Rosa, Calif. "If we think the best wine is even $5, we'll buy it," says Joel Quigley, the club's head...