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...couldn't live without him. Babel's story line is even more complex than Volver's, spanning three continents and a dozen major characters, most of whom never meet one another. Yet their most innocent actions - giving a present to a stranger, escorting two kids to a wedding, taking target practice in the North African desert - have startling, perhaps tragic repercussions on the others...
Kimberlin says his strategy is to target people in their early 20s, who are tech savvy and the biggest users of the high-drain devices Oxyride is most suited to run: digital cameras, MP3 players and handheld games. So the company advertises heavily on youth-magnet media such as MySpace com Yahoo! Instant Messenger and MTV com Panasonic has also become the battery sponsor of Anheuser-Busch theme parks and the Dew Action Sports Tour, a competition featuring skateboarding, BMX biking and freestyle motocross...
Just to get right in the face of Energizer, the company has designated June 14 as "Neuter Your Bunny Day," with you-know-who as the obvious target. A van will cruise New York City plastered in ads for Oxyride and NeuterYour Bunny.com a website extolling the benefits of both Oxyride and rabbit neutering, culminating with the neutering of about a dozen bunnies at a local veterinary clinic...
...reported that Nintendo hopes its new game controller, which senses a player's hand movements, will appeal to girls and grandparents. As a female gamer who has been playing video games since the days of Pac-Man, I am always amused by game companies that feel the need to target female gamers. Not one of the games aimed at girls has appealed to me. You know what I want in a game? How about realistic female characters instead of bouncy, skinny, half-naked ones? I've given up playing female characters in any game because of how they look. Does...
...restricted to the U.S. it seems. Supporters of the law cite its necessity in protecting Japan from terrorist attacks. They reason that as a steadfast ally of the U.S. and one of the few countries that dispatched troops to Iraq (and which still remain there), Japan has become a target for terrorists. Thus a law which screens entering aliens and puts their personal information in a database may be crucial to safeguarding Tokyo from the fate of Istanbul, Riyadh, or Bali. There is some merit to this argument, though Japan’s exclusively logistic and non-combat role...