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...Worst of 2000: StanLee.net Stan Lee, longtime editor and figurehead of Marvel Comics, has gone digital, and come up with exactly the same boring, hackneyed stories and characters he's been overseeing for the last 30 years. In case you miss the point, the NASDAQ abbreviation (SLEE) is on the homepage. Visit scottmccloud.com for a real vision of the potential of digital comics...
...help and is confronted with the a perky voice recording system that advises "Thank you for dialing 9-1-1. Please listen for your language. For Spanish, press one. For Korean, press two. For..." As he falls to the ground in agony, a voice-over queries: "Do you ever miss English? Immigration is out of control...
...Every day I miss Portugal, but I just can't leave," she says...
...Democrats warn that if Bush becomes president, there will come a time, months hence, when journalists or academics working under the Freedom of Information Act may count all the Florida votes and find that Gore actually won, thereby precipitating a crisis of legitimacy for Bush. Piffle. Bonior seems to miss the point of all these court challenges, which is to ask: By what standard do you inspect and judge the ballots? It is precisely because subjective or partisan standards are in play that the courts are trying to sort the matter out. How could a journalist or academic ever come...
That's what motivated Carlos Watson to found the highly successful college-prep program Achiever.com Watson's self-taught grandmother, the granddaughter of slaves in Jackson, Miss., graduated from college and was followed by her six siblings, seven children and 19 grandchildren. "There's a real belief in college in my family," Watson says. With the help of school districts around the country, he recruits at-risk students--most of whom hadn't thought of college--for an intensive online course that covers nailing the SATs, applications and scholarships. Result: 85% of Achiever.com students...