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Outside of this shorts program, the chief delight of the festival is Bill Plympton’s taste-impaired animated feature Mutant Aliens, which delivers what its title promises and more. Its genetically altered space animals stomp, impale, gulp down, and otherwise commit murder in the name of justice for Earl, the story’s embittered astronaut hero. Earl’s chief opponent, the money-minded space official Dr. Frubar, soon learns that an antagonist who relies on the support of ad money and horny secretaries can only advance so far. Plympton’s inventive mind...
...beginning negotiations with NHS. Over the next five years, the University and NHS held a series of community planning meetings to develop the residents' vision for the site. But a stalling real estate market brought the process to a standstill, as NHS couldn't find tenants to commit to the area...
...same time boost Kenyan tourism--by taking on a small part of a problem the government has been unable to address: dealing with 160,000 homeless kids, many of whom live and sleep on the streets of the capital city of Nairobi, where they beg, steal, sniff glue and commit violence as a means of survival...
...commit ourselves to figure out what is useful, useless, safe, and unsafe, we will create a better model of health care for the next generation," Eisenberg says...
...elementary-school teachers are black men. And principals want more of them as role models for inner-city schoolchildren. So schools of education are ratcheting up their efforts to fill the need. At three historically black colleges in South Carolina--Claflin, Benedict and Morris--male freshmen who commit to teaching for four years in the state receive full scholarships. The model was developed by researchers at Clemson University and will be expanded to other historically black schools...