Word: programming
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Later, at a kindergarten, she was greeted by dozens of singing and dancing children who are among the 8 million North Koreans being fed with the held of the World Food Program. More than one third of the country's population has been threatened with starvation due to the country's extreme poverty, mammoth external debt and collapsed communist economy, exacerbated by recent droughts and typhoons. The U.S has provided 67 percent of the total food aid to the country...
...they really want action, it's Nader who's proposing a Marshall Plan for the inner cities and an $8.50 minimum wage. Instead Gore promises tax credits for college and making that commute a little easier and a prescription-drug entitlement for every grandma. But the gentle program aimed right at the swing voters gets lost because they are so annoyed by Gore's aggressive manner...
...Claymation, computer graphics, flipbook-like pencil drawings and a kind of "Lego-mation," S&M's festival certainly covers all grounds of animation. Each short film, ranging from one minute to nine-and-a-half minutes, features stories either too short to be made into its own movie or program or too offensive or to be in any form other than animation...
...audience were to see a child beating a defenseless live monkey within an inch of its life for a good laugh, irate callers would instantly be on the phone with PETA. However, when the poor creature is no more than a figure created with a computer drawing program (as it is in the short "Stinky Monkey"), the animal abuse is nothing less than hilarious. Spike and Mike have capitalized on this tendency to dismiss animation as frivolous to show cartoons that, if seriously considered, would deeply offend. For instance, the masturbation scene in "Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple...
...Unfortunately for the space agency, American public opinion has never been less hospitable to NASA's dreams: The Mars program has weathered two expensive losses in the past two years, and taxpayers are increasingly opposed to funding potentially useless probes and robots. NASA officials are apparently hoping their current public display of fiscal conservatism and careful planning will win back a few hearts...