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...provide a spectrum of programming to ensure something for everyone. If some people switch off, no matter. "The notion that you shouldn't pay for something if you don't use it is uncivilized," says Attenborough. It's no different, he adds, than having some of his tax money spent on, say, a public swimming pool or library "even though I don't use either...
...detective for the East Palo Alto, Calif., police department, where he has worked for five years. The other is a large garish tattoo of St. Michael casting the devil into hell that adorns his forearm. The image is a work in progress, and Soares, 33, has spent three years and $5,000 getting it just the way he wants it. So he faced something of a test of allegiances this summer when the department forbade all its officers from displaying tattoos on the job. "It is not fair. I have spent a lot of time and money on my tattoos...
...know, Dumbledore had no fully realized romance in all his 115 years--just a lifetime spent around children and, for the seven years we know him, a fascination with the boy Potter. That's pathetic and frustratingly stereotypical. It's difficult to believe someone as wise and sane as Dumbledore couldn't find at least one wizard his age to take to the Three Broomsticks...
...Diego County, site of the worst fires, people spent a few minutes gathering some mementos before abandoning their houses ahead of the flames, seeking refuge with relatives or friends or even in Qualcomm Stadium, which went from being the home of the San Diego Chargers to a temporary shelter for more than 20,000 refugees - stirring worrisome memories of the tens of thousands who swarmed to the Superdome in New Orleans two years ago. Hotels filled quickly, highways jammed and grocery-store shelves ran bare. Some residents learned of the danger through television coverage of the fire. The images...
...wood shavings!”) I intervened and gained full custody. I ended up giving him to a friend with a little brother, who renamed him Smurf. Good call.By the time I was a senior in high school, Zorro had grown into a fat and happy cat who spent his days sitting on my dad and watching Lady scare chipmunks in our yard. My senior spring, he died. After I rode home from the animal hospital with my parents—relegated to the back seat once more—I sat on the side of my bed and cried...