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...human companionship, you can take your dog up to central New Hampshire and visit the Lazy Dog Inn, where there are plenty of cross-country skiing and snow-shoeing trails to explore. Plus you can watch sled dog races. There's also doggie day care if you meet someone special and want to head out on the town. Starting at $90 per night.201 White Mtn Hghwy, Chocorua...
...blitz. Nearly five years ago, Katzenberg decided to put his money where his vision was and, starting with Monsters, committed to making all his company's animation in 3-D from the outset. While Disney's Pixar and others have also produced 3-D animation over the years, the special effect is typically added during postproduction. DreamWorks built its own 3-D-authoring software and hardware and, along with Intel and Hewlett-Packard, built a server farm that fills a room, floor to ceiling, the size of a small banquet hall. Among other tools, moviemakers there jury-rigged a video...
...Force By Police: Overview of National and Local Data.” This comparative study of arrests in Miami-Dade County and Eugene, Oregon, found that in all use-of-force incidents in which the officers used a chemical agent, baton, gun, or other special weapons, 57 percent of the suspects were black, 28 percent were Latino, and only 15 percent were white. More recent studies by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) also found that blacks and Latinos suffer much more from excessive force than whites...
...most serious issue has been Bruni's reported involvement in two recent cases of blocked extraditions of convicted Italian leftist terrorists, who had taken refuge in France under a special amnesty law signed by then-President Francois Mitterrand in the wake of Italy's so-called "Years of Lead" violence in the 1970s and 1980s. Bruni admitted in October that she and her older sister had urged Sarkozy to block the scheduled extradition of Marina Petrella, who was suffering from severe depression and weight loss. Sarkozy, who'd come to office vowing to force the return of convicted Italian terrorists...
...send a message: diplomacy will now take precedence over military force in U.S. foreign policy - and his Administration's will be a diplomacy of constant, persistent attention to the world's problem areas rather than slapdash summitry. The occasion for Obama's visit was the announcement of two special envoys, Richard Holbrooke and George Mitchell, both of whom represent a silent reproach to the Bush Administration. Holbrooke will have the near impossible task of untangling the mess in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a problem exacerbated by recent American inattention to detail in the area. (The deterioration toward chaos in Pakistan, especially...