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...healthy-living message is clear - but not too heavy-handed. "A boy watching LazyTown will think it's an action show," says Scheving, "while a girl might think it's a dance program." Fans also love the show's vivid visuals. Shot in Gardabaer, a suburb of Reykjavik, LazyTown blends live action, puppetry and cutting-edge CGI backgrounds. Each 25-minute episode costs $800,000 - four times the average budget of a kids' show. It's a price worth paying. "By 2015, there will be more than 700 million obese people worldwide," says Scheving. "It's vital to motivate families...
...black bus rivals a greyhound in size but has an interior like a limo--and it gets a few curious looks as we wander into the dense neighborhoods of Elk Grove, Calif., a quiet suburb 15 minutes south of Sacramento. Five of us--a mortgage counselor, three investors and I--are looking at 10 recently foreclosed homes dubbed "excellent deals" by the O'Brien Co., the agency that set up the trip...
Like many communities across the U.S. that boomed during the housing bubble, Elk Grove is feeling the pain of the housing burst. For the most part, the trauma of eviction is hidden--the suburb has the occasional overgrown yard, although not as many as I'd expected, and FOR SALE signs dot the streets. But a funny thing happened on the way to Elk Grove's demise: it has started to come back. Over the past six months, investors and first-time home buyers have moved in, snapping up homes now priced at less than $250,000. Residents are working...
...ballroom at the downtown Indianapolis Marriott to the city's convention center, where she expects more than 2,500 people will attend. In the last week, more than 1,000 new donations have come through the committee's website, many from Hamilton County, the affluent, Republican-dominated northern Indianapolis suburb where Obama has been campaigning fiercely. Given the new donations, she says, "There's going to be a lot of switchover voters, and that's been bit of a hot topic...
After nearly four years of hoping and praying for his safe return, the parents of the nation's first soldier listed as missing in action in the Iraq war said their son's remains have been found in Iraq. An Army general visited the couple in a Cincinnati suburb Sunday afternoon to give Carolyn and Keith Maupin the sad news about their son, Sergeant Matt Maupin. "Matt is coming home," his father said. "He's completed his mission...