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...from Berkeley, Calif., works from a Manhattan office that looks like a cross between a designer workshop and Peewee's Playhouse. "I've discovered something that uses all the things I've done," he says. That's no small feat. At 17 he was helping his father's colleague write risk-analysis software for nuclear power plants; by 21 he had an art degree from Yale. He got inspiration for his toys from artists in Hong Kong and Japan...
...Plan B and now president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research group. Because the drug's effectiveness drops 50% every 12 hours and is limited to the first 72 hours after unprotected sex, proponents of Plan B say any obstacle--a doctor who is unavailable to write a prescription or a pharmacy that is out of stock--runs down the clock toward an unplanned pregnancy. The drug, a high-dose variant of ordinary birth-control pills, works in a similar way, by preventing ovulation and fertilization. It can also inhibit a fertilized egg from implanting itself...
They also didn't want to write an advertisement for polygamy, which in real life has been associated with child abuse. (Although practiced by early Mormons, polygamy is banned by the church, the show notes in a disclaimer.) Bill was abandoned by his polygamist family as a boy, only to return to his religious roots in midlife. "He's on a spiritual quest," says Paxton. "His core belief is that we're put on this earth to procreate. He's a healthy apple tree, and it's his job to produce healthy apples...
...political tension between India and Pakistan has also allowed the two great South Asian rivals to play each other three times since 2004. Technology has played a part, too. Stump-mounted mini-cameras, computer graphics to predict a ball's trajectory and touch screens that allow commentators to write their analysis across the picture have made cricket one of the flashier sports on TV. Speed says even the length of the games?Test matches between national sides can take five days and a series one month or more?is appealing to broadcasters and advertisers. "It's a lot of content...
...have had many conversations with Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims about the cartoons. The issue of freedom of speech is not well understood by them, but the reasoning behind their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...