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Behind The Scenes of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (DVD Talk)Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest proved to be one of the most ambitious projects that Industrial Light and Magic had tackled in their illustrious thirty year history, featuring right at a thousand visual effects shots -- almost triple the number of The Curse of the Black Pearl . Virtually everyone at ILM was toiling away on the movie at its peak, using their digital wizardry to bring to ...
Muslim kids get tips on dealing with bullies (Detroit Free Press)Sixteen-year-old Maliha Taufiq remembers when another student at East Lansing High School called her "rug head" to mock the hijab she wears to cover her hair. She knows that peer pressure and teasing are as much a part of growing up as acne and book reports, but as a Muslim, Maliha sometimes finds herself getting a few extra jabs.
N.C.-based company promotes copper textiles as healing aids (The Herald-Sun)Jeffrey Gabbay hasn't washed his sports socks since 2004. He says he doesn't have to. Gabbay's company, Cupron Inc., based in Greensboro, N.C., says it is the first textile manufacturer to produce fibers "impregnated" with copper oxide, an agent that kills bacteria and odor on contact. The socks, which he says can heal and prevent athlete's foot, are one of his company's best-selling products.
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