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Speaking at the Harvard Law School Forum, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist says, "The most important issue in American jurisprudence today is the treatment of illegal immigrants from Pluto." Saying he was "glad to be fully recovered from my illness and back to my usual schedule," the justice added, "I'll feel even better when that six-foot cocker spaniel stops following me everywhere...
...time was the 1930s and early 1940s. The place was the Walt Disney Studio. Members of the young team that drew Mickey, Donald, Pluto, Goofy and the rest of its barnyard denizens were early students of what is now referred to as body language. They understood that, on the screen, action is character, that in the exaggerated twitch of one of their little anthropomorph's bottoms, the stretch of his back or the lift of his ever-scampering feet they could, with fine comic efficiency, show the state of his emotions. The history of animation from the Mouse...
...comic force, simple and unsentimental, that for high, mean spirits was never matched. It is true that in Iwerks' rubbery stick figures and bare backgrounds there was an elemental anarchy that is still delightful. But one has only to look at Norm Ferguson's roughs for Playful Pluto, in which he caused his pup to be caught in flypaper for an entire reel of helpless hilarity to see what three-dimensional plasticity could do to enhance the range and delicacy of animated humor. When the whole Disney gang got going on something like The Band Concert or Mickey...
Cameron said he believes proof of the existence of Charon negates a hypothesis which postulates that Pluto originated as an escape satellite of Neptune. "It's difficult for Pluto to be an escape satellite and have a satellite of its own," he said...
Franklin said some evidence indicates that Pluto may be in a separate planetary system, adding that observing future occultations will help scientists learn more about the planet and its moons...