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...meant for small spaces. The bigger, heavier Hi-Fi is meant to fill a room. Still, though it has an auxiliary input for stereo sources, it's not necessarily something you'd think to connect to your cable set-top box. And because it's all one piece, it wouldn't make a good speaker system for a computer...
...Carla's motives for staying in Mexico. It lasts for over five pages with Memo saying things like "You teach over-priced English classes to under-educated Mexican morons who buy into the imperialistic American model?" To which Carla wonders about Memo's real reasons for learning English. "It wouldn't have anything to do with buying into imperialist American aesthetics of female beauty, and wanting to get into some naturally-blond pants?" It's a rarity to find oneself talking back at comic book characters but these are so vivid and outspoken you can't help yourself...
...hands with a black person. But the conflicts between the couples are more ambiguous. After the "black creature" incident, Brian and Renee wonder how Carmen would feel if someone called her a "magnificent white creature." What the Sparkses apparently don't see is that the effusive, dramatic Carmen probably wouldn't be offended. What the Wurgel-Marcotullis apparently don't see is the reason for that: whites have not had a history of racists likening them to animals...
...involvement in everything from choosing meals to setting opening hours. "They felt like businesses, not child care," says Jill, a mother who visited several private centers in search of a place for her children. But Martin Kemp, ABC's ceo for Australia and New Zealand, dismisses the criticisms: "We wouldn't be the success we are if we didn't receive that support from parents." The company will go on expanding, he says, and this year hopes to add 8,000 places in the notoriously scarce under-two category...
...reports that Iran is as much as ten years away from being able to perfect the kind of industrial-scale enrichment that Tehran has threatened in exchange for Security Council referral. And while its nuclear stance is remarkably popular across the political spectrum at home, even building a bomb wouldn't answer the regime's basic problem: How to create jobs for the millions of young Iranians chafing under their poverty, who elected President Ahmadinejad on promises to put food on their tables. Foreign investment and trade remains the key to transforming Iran's economic prospects, and prospects for attracting...