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...artful shots made me aware of all the details that a single photo, like the one of Spanish children playing on a street, can encompass. About a year ago, I started looking at photographs late at night before going to sleep, because I wanted to learn about photography and absorb the information that can be uniquely documented in a picture. This way of learning by contemplating photographs, just as Nachtwey did with Cartier-Bresson's pictures, continues. Petra von Schenck Wiesbaden, Germany...
...artful shots made me aware of all the details that a single photo, like the one of Spanish children playing on a street, can encompass. About a year ago, I started looking at photographs late at night before going to sleep because I wanted to learn about photography and absorb the information that can be uniquely documented in a picture. This way of learning by contemplating photographs, just as Nachtwey did with Cartier-Bresson's pictures, continues. Petra von Schenck Wiesbaden, Germany Al-Qaeda in America I was disappointed to see that time gave so much coverage to al-Qaeda...
...hard for the auditors to persuade courts that they were deceived. - By Peter Gumbel Calm After The Storm In the first loss estimate based on insurance claims, the U.S. Insurance Information Institute put the cost of Hurricane Charley to insurers at $7.4 billion, and suggested existing premiums could absorb the storm's impact...
Doom had a cultural impact as well. Its fluid, hyperkinetic rhythms have become part of the visual language of movies and TV. "Kids can absorb information on the screen more rapidly, and they react to it much faster as well," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer (The Rock, Enemy of the State). "They also don't have the patience of older audiences, so we have to make our stories move along at a faster pace." The game was also exceptionally violent ("It's going to be like f___ing Doom!" one of the Columbine killers famously said), to an extent that shocks...
...pilot drug-treatment program in Kunming. Using funding from both ADARC and private donors, he has also built a clinic, set up a virology lab capable of performing basic viral-load tests and put together a state-of-the-art immunology lab?all of which will eventually absorb the testing required for the future vaccine studies...