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...Ollmann's cartooning style is at once conventional and grotesque. He works in a strict nine-panel grid system of tight little boxes. This makes his work very TV-like, with nearly every panel featuring a close-up of a character. Wide angles, experimental layouts, and non-action panels are generally shunned, making it easy to read for novice comix readers, but rather conservative to sophisticates. With what he does depict, though, Ollmann has an excellent grasp of caricature. Faces are what Ollmann does best. Frequently covered in zits, freckles and pockmarks, his character's faces are detailed in their...
...country faces ever-worsening problems concerning floods, fire and deforestation, Congress is assaulting our nation’s forests. The Clinton Administration set down strict guidelines, which have been upheld by the courts, and have to date been largely successful in protecting U.S. forests. But the Bush administration and many in Congress, believe that the remaining old-growth forests should be re-opened to logging. The issue mainly concerns the two largest American forests: the Tongass—which is the size of West Virginia—and Chugach National Forests, both in Alaska. Current bills coming...
...prefer to work into the evening?" Others are potentially explosive: "What do you like about my family of origin? What do you dislike?" Still others require a crystal ball: "When our child is a baby, will she/he be breast-fed? For how long? Will we adhere to a strict feeding schedule or not?" It's a nice antidote to instamatch TV-reality shows like The Bachelorette. But if you follow all this book's advice, your relationship may suddenly feel like homework. --By Andrea Sachs
There are strict laws against debt collectors' harassing debtors, but a new audio CD put together by the National Consumer Law Center, a not-for-profit group of lawyers and others, vividly shows how harassment still goes on. The CD features recently taped phone calls from around the country...
...being on a big portal like AOL," says David Bolotsky, who headed Goldman Sachs' U.S. retail group before launching UncommonGoods, an online and catalog gift shop, in 1999. "When they realized they were losing their shirts, there was a backlash." In the next phase, retailers started insisting on strict revenue-sharing deals. These days the pendulum has swung back. Most deals between retailers and portals fall somewhere in the middle, so neither side shoulders all the risk...