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...writer and director of the highly anticipated Lord of the Rings movie has decided to give fans a chance to pay to be in the credits. For a three-year subscription to the fan club and a credit in all three movies, the price is just $100. People can sign up until Nov. 15, or for another...
...same time, on Capitol Hill and at the Food and Drug Administration, BMS has remembered its self-interest. The company is trying to leverage a provision of drug law designed to help children to secure a three-year extension on its exclusive right to sell a top-grossing diabetes drug, Glucophage - and hiring a world of lobbyists to help make it happen. The tablet form of the drug brings the company $1.4 billion a year...
...initiative in November 2002 that would replace the current bilingual program with a one-year immersion crash course for students who do not speak English. Currently, if there are at least 20 students of limited English proficiency who reside in a Massachusetts school district, that district must provide a three-year program that brings those students to competency in English. At the same time, it must provide additional native language instruction in other subjects, such as math and science, so that students do not fall behind their peers in learning course content. The Unz proposal seeks to end that system...
...Back in Jalalabad, the Taliban took us to the Sihat-i-Aama Hospital where 17 injured Khrum villagers were receiving treatment. Among them was three-year old Rahmat Bibi, her legs broken and her head bandaged, crying aloud while asking to be taken to her dead mother, one of the victims of the air strikes. One-year-old Jan Bibi and her three-year-old brother Gul Khan were lying in the same hospital bed, unaware that they had been orphaned. Doctors said they were short of drugs, which wasn't unusual in a country that has been...
...overweening presence of Queen Victoria's realm. They were scruffy, hairy faced, profoundly religious in their battle against Anglo-Saxon materialism and extremely hard to find and destroy. It took no less than 300,000 men from Britain and the other dominions to overwhelm the Afrikaaner resistance in a three-year campaign. "We have had no end of a lesson," Kipling warned. British military forces were not equipped for guerrilla warfare. Intelligence was lacking. Stock markets swooned. Foreign states expressed regret but privately enjoyed the British discomfiture. The empire was compelled to rethink its strategy, its priorities, its trade-offs...