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...Angeles native, Sheng has taken photography courses at Harvard since his first year and is a VES concentrator. In high school, he was photo editor of his yearbook. He describes the L.A. suburb where he lived, Thousand Oaks, as being “like the movie Clueless. The yearbook was aesthetically pleasing, and [choosing pictures for layout] was a lesson in beauty.” Later, he decided he wanted to take pictures rather than merely select them and he enrolled in an “amazing” community college course that helped prepare him for photo classes...
...Three thousand Russian soldiers lost their lives, and up to 10,000 Russians were wounded...
...Seven thousand miles away on the very same day, the Pentagon was firing a more old-fashioned round on Capitol Hill--a five-year, $2 trillion budget plan larded with cold war-era weapons. There's the Crusader howitzer, a cannon so cumbersome that in 2000 a presidential candidate named George W. Bush questioned its utility. And there's the F-22 Raptor, a fighter jet designed to challenge a Soviet air force that no longer exists. The Raptor could prove useful against other foes, but critics call it redundant; there are two other fighter designs in the pipeline...
...Like many other TV freaks, Necratog, 21, also downloads favorite programs and burns them onto CDs. His archives include 400 CDs that hold more than a thousand Buffy, Babylon 5, South Park and Star Trek shows. But Buffy is his favorite. "I'll watch the same episode three or four times in a row," he says. "I've watched some over 20 times altogether...
...says Movie88.com is losing money right now, but he won't get into too many specifics. He says they pay $228 per month for each of their 40 to 50 T1 lines. The site currently has "a few hundred thousand" users and delivers between 2,000 and 3,000 movies a day, usually at a cost of $1 per showing - shorts and animation cost 50c, new releases go for $2. He wouldn't reveal the extent of investment required to start movie88.com, but said the servers alone had cost millions of dollars...