For too long, play has been limited to high power serve and volley tactics, which is generally more dull than longer rallies for spectators of the game. They fear that if players continue to become better, stronger and taller, they will eventually serve faster than human reaction times, and thus the excitement of the game will be diminished. The balls, which are six per cent larger but the same weight as normal balls have been designed to slow down in the air and take longer to reach the baseline. The new Walt Disney film 102 Dalmatians is running into trouble from animal rights activists long before it's US release in November. Protestors say that the movie promotes incorrect, cuddly stereotypes of the dogs, which could result in their being over-bred and abandoned.
Dalmatians can be highly-strung and unpredictable.
Protesters outside the Disney Studios in Burbank, California, want a statement to be shown on screen warning against buying them on impulse. In a battle that was just a matter of time before it happened, the conservation-minded charity, the World Wide Fund for Nature, is heading for a smackdown tussle with the atrociously unfriendly World Wrestling Federation, an organisation avidly devoted to destruction and mayhem. The two organisations have supposedly had some form of understanding since 1994 restraining the way the initial letters WWF are used in marketing, especially on the Internet. Naturally the World Wrestling Federation disagrees, and will shout and pout till they get their way. The body of a British air-hostess has been found perfectly preserved 50 years after her plane crashed into the Andes.