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find plenty of pop-eyed fans, but also a large
tingent with eyes narrowed in contempt.
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3 general secretary,’" political commentator
nid Zakharov wrote in Friday’s edition of
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tues of himself, made in the worst traditions
totalitarian monumentalism (one of them he
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ne spot where once stood a sculpture of
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YORK (AP) — Lea Thompson will have a
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gjop lommy loves Daddy, but this is her job.”’
Thompson, 34, is married to movie director
Todays Expectioward Deutch. Daughter Madeline is 5.
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[hairdo,Thompson chopped off her shoulder-length
fair at the suggestion of show producers. While
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lid diplomatically, “Well, it will grow back.”
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film ‘Fly Away Home’
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pends on adapting to life’s little accidents, “Fly
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going to be, and one hour into it there are
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a question of always shifting and making the
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(rring 14-year-old Anna Paquin as a girl from New
land living with her estranged father in Canada,
like her character, Anna was born in Canada,
mother was from New Zealand, her father was
adian, and during the shooting of the movie
were getting divorced,” Ballard said. “We just
together stories that happened to people who
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migrate, was second with $5
million, industry sources said
Sunday.
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Columbia Pictures, and the
timing of the one-two punch is
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forced out studio chief Mark
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is including “The Cable Guy.”
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Tin Cup” with $3.5 million, and “First Kid” with
3 million.
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2. “Fly Away Home,” $5 million.
3. “Bulletproof,” $4 million.
4. “Tin Cup,” $3.5 million.
5. “First Kid,” $3.3 million.
6. “The Rich Man’s Wife,” $3.2 million.
7. “A Time to Kill,” $2.9 million.
8. “The Spitfire Grill,” $2.5 million.
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Students in Professor Howard Hesbv’s Animal Science 107 class are learning the
importance of animal industry — with some help from a cow.
ine words, printed on a syllabus for Professor Howard
Hesby’s Animal Science 107 class, state an underlying
theme of the course.
“Never let going to class interfere with your education.”
The phrase refers to Hesby’s interactive style of teach
ing, which students witnessed Monday, Sept. 9.
On that day, Hesby said he wanted to illustrate how
animals improve plant food sources, so he invited two students to
eat a special breakfast.
“In the breakfast, I gave them raw corn, hay and water,” Hesby said.
“The students decided they didn’t want to eat the hay or the raw corn.
So the class decided they should feed it to an animal.”
Hesby brought a Jersey cow from the Animal Science Dairy Center
and a Leghorn hen from the Poultry Science Center into the class
room for “breakfast.”
“We feed the raw corn and the hay to the animals and they make
high-quality food,” Hesby said. “The laying hen eats the raw corn and
makes eggs, and the cow eats the hay and makes the milk. So that
makes a high-quality breakfast out of poor-quality foods. That’s the
importance of the animal to the human industry.”
Afterward, the students were allowed to pet the chicken.
Hesby’s class is not a sedentary one. The class may take about 13
field trips this semester, touring the Howard Owens Cutting Horses
Farm, the V 8 Brahman Ranch, the Shallow Wells Puppy Farm, the
Food Safety Inspection Service training center and the Animal Blood
Typing Genetics Lab near College Station.
Students can also earn extra credit for milking cows at the Dairy
Center, feeding and harnessing horses at the Horse Center, helping
with chores at the Sheep Center, breeding pigs at the Veterinary
Medical Center Research Park ,and by watching a purebred cattle sale.
Students are also allowed to go on three special 11 -day field trips for
credit hours during semester breaks.
Hesby has been with Texas A&M for 25 years, and he has taught
Animal Science 107 for seven years.
He said his goal in teaching this class is to get students interested
in learning about the importance of animals.
“We’re just trying to illustrate the importance of the animal indus
try in the. food chain,” Hesby said. “If we tell students that, they won’t
believe us. It’s better to show them.”
Hesby’s students benefit from his not-so-conventional teaching
methods.
Alan Mosley, a sophomore biomedical science major, said the class
is interesting.
“It’s pretty interactive; the field trips are good,” Mosley said. “Other
than that, the class keeps you awake.”
Laura Reilly, Hesby’s assistant and a graduate student in agricul
tural development, said that the best reason to be in the class are the
field trips.
“The class is real introductory, not real scientific, but there is some
good scientific information thrown in there,’’Reilly said.
Cathy Elmer, a sophomore biomedical science major, said she likes
the class.
“It’s a lot of fun,” said Elmer. “It’s probably the most interesting
class that I’ve taken.”
Hesby said there have been other interesting occurences in the class.
“Last semester, a young student who had not eaten meat since she
was 12 learned the importance of high-quality amino acids in protein
for the human body,” Hesby said, “and she started to eat meat again.”
Animal Science 107 is held in three different sections. Hesby teach
es one section, assistant professor W. Shawn Ramsey teaches another
section, and professor Ronnie Edwards teaches the honors section.
The three instructors use similar teaching methods. Ramsey
brought a cow irjto class and sheared a sheep for his students to illus
trate the importance of wool in the animal industry.
Students interested in seeing more about this class can visit Hesby’s
World Wide Web site at http://agweb.tamu.edu/ansc/hesby.htm.
Susan Souers, a freshman animal sci
ence major, holds a Leghorn hen as it
is passed around the classroom.
: ‘We’re trying to illustrate
the importance of the
animal industry in the
food chain ... It’s better
to show [the students].”
- Dr. Howard Hesby
professor of animal science
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Professor Howard Hesby feeds
sophomore animal science major,
Rachel Mier's hair to a cow.