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...features. Most car 'toons anthropomorphize their characters by having the headlights serve as the eyes. Lasseter, following a charming Disney short, the 1952 Susie, the Little Blue Coupe, made the windshield the eyes. Cars also has fun turning hood ornaments into mustaches, grilles into mouths. More important, it evokes shifts of mood by the subtle shift of body weight, the low growl of an engine...
...College Harry R. Lewis ’68, are upset that the North Yard building boom has yet to garner any major donors, saying that the decision to go ahead with construction before securing funding bordered on the irresponsible.“There seems to have been a shift during the Summers years to starting building projects without the funds lined up to pay for them,” Lewis, the McKay professor of computer science, wrote in an e-mail. “It is a lot harder to raise money for a building that has already been built...
...ball by hand. Then it was more study, this time of Tiger rules and regulations, first aid and perhaps an English class, before lights out at 10 p.m. Her duties didn't end there, however. At some point during the night, Samandi had to take a 45-minute guard shift...
...former President Bill Clinton, who helped to broker the agreement, noted, “If an 8-year old took in 45 less calories per day, by the time he reached high school, he would weigh 20 pounds less than he would have weighed otherwise.” Each shift made by the government, school districts, and corporations toward encouraging healthy eating is important, but without larger initiatives such as this one, necessary changes in the diets of American children will not occur. While removing unhealthy beverages from schools is a worthy achievement, it does not address the need...
...between threats to annihilate Israel and make life hell for America to dash off a letter to President Bush proposing "new solutions" to "the current fragile situation in the world." As improbable as the conciliatory tone may sound from the usually bellicose Ahmadinejad, it may represent a smart shift in diplomatic strategy at a moment when the U.S. is struggling to forge an international consensus to turn up the heat on Tehran...