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...Bluth has been making just-O.K. animated features for two decades; typically, he dabbles in tantalizing subjects (the immigrant experience in An American Tail, the historical romance in Anastasia) without freshening them. But Bluth's best film, The Land Before Time, was set in the distant past, where he was freed from his tendency for painterly realism. Here he and co-director Gary Goldman use 3-D computer technology, and some very talented designers, to dream up a world--a galaxy--of marvelous sights, spaceships, planets, vistas and critters. And when it shifts into action mode, the movie...
That's because Estee Lauder Inc., which controls some 50% of the $7 billion prestige beauty market and owns top brands such as Clinique, Origins and M.A.C., refuses to sell to independent sites. At the height of the e-tail start-up boom last fall, such niggling details didn't matter. Like most other e-commerce ventures, the beauty sites were thinking only about getting big, fast. Sooner or later, they thought, the big brands like Lauder, Lancome and Chanel would come on board. "The start-ups' lack of knowledge was painful," says Allan Mottus, an analyst who consulted...
...There was a strong direct tail wind, which pushes the boat to go faster," said junior Luka Djunic. "The rowing conditions weren't all that good, but we rowed well enough to take advantage of the tail wind...
...better speaking terms? Well, you can get there with a little practice. In his new book, How to Speak Dog, Stanley Coren claims that a dog has the intellect and vocabulary of a two-year-old child--but humans must learn to interpret their canine's nonverbal noises, tail wags and other body language. A sample: for dogs, a yawn is not a sign of fatigue but of anxiety. And each of those wags can tell a variety of stories, depending on posture and pace. More about Coren's theories can be found at ANIMALNEWS.COM...
Berry-blue eyed with a pert blond pony tail, Butler discusses the challenge of publicizing a group that is not recognized by the College...