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That changes this week, when the first HD DVD player out of the block, Toshiba's $500 HD-A1, goes on sale at Amazon.com and major U.S. retail stores. The boxy black and silver device looks like a standard DVD player--and will play standard DVDs--but also contains the hardware necessary to play HD DVDs when it's connected to an HDTV set. (And only when it's connected to an HDTV; you can't watch the new discs on your old sets...
...called. That's an 8% increase from the year before in both the U.S. and Britain, while growth in places like China and Thailand is in double digits - a pace that makes outdoor the second fastest-growing ad medium after the Internet. And we're not talking just your standard roadside eat at joe's billboard. Today's outdoor ads are everywhere - on waste cans, taxis, bus shelters, phone kiosks, even gasoline nozzles. Intrusive? Perhaps, but some of them are also interactive at your request. And at a time when consumers have become increasingly mobile and increasingly overloaded with information...
Even her coffin captured this mixture of the traditional and the personal. It was draped with the royal standard; on top of that rested a spray of white lilies, Diana's favorite flower. And there was something else: a bouquet of white tulips from Prince William and a wreath of white roses with a card bearing the handwritten word Mummy from Prince Harry...
...shows. White House press secretary Scott McClellan gave the party line: "We welcome all those families that follow those guidelines that are in place." McClellan wouldn't say definitely whether the President will attend. "I don't have any update on his schedule for Monday," he said, using a standard formulation for declining to comment. "We'll keep you posted...
...front of anyone really. Usually based on evidence that is questionable and unconfirmed at best—if it even exists at all—these remarks are nevertheless allowed to go unchecked, quite often with other women joining in on the fun. It is a double standard that no one ever talks about.However, when women treat each other in such a cruel and disrespectful manner, it opens the door for men to do the same. Essentially, women help to create a culture of assumption that establishes—especially in terms of sexuality—damaging and incorrect ideas...