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...Morte, and it's clear Hitchcock directly recreated its image in Vertigo when Kim Novak throws herself into San Francisco Bay. Walking around Rodin's The Kiss gives the same effect as the camera turning around Jimmy Stewart's embrace of Novak later in the movie. The aerial shot of Cary Grant in the cornfield in North by Northwest - with a road cutting straight through the cornrows to the edge of the screen - draws on Léon Spilliaert's Le Paquebot ou L'Estran, a painting of alternating strips of sand and ocean blue bands stretching...
...That farcical touch actually contributed to the victims' fate. Banerjee describes an ill-prepared administration that collapsed like a frail tree. Nearly everyone comes off as indictable: the politicians who demanded aerial surveys or motorcades for photo ops; the volunteers who scrambled for grants from aid agencies but did nothing about rehabilitation; the journalists looking for color. Relief material piled up but was not distributed. (Some ended up in Gujarat after its devastating earthquake 15 months later.) The greatest crime of all: officials responsible for relief, after failing in their jobs, were allegedly found swindling the state treasury. According...
...Pentagon took a key step toward unmanned aerial warfare in February, when a $3 million Predator drone that was initially designed for spying was able to destroy a tank by aiming and firing a Hellfire missile with help from its ground-based controller...
Most important, the U.S. military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles--UAVs to the military, drones to everybody else--is increasing in sophistication and capability. Rumsfeld, conducting an exhaustive review of how the U.S. wages war, is convinced the time has come to rely more on cheap drones. Last year Congress--concerned over the American public's skittishness about U.S. casualties--told the Pentagon it wants one-third of U.S. bombing missions flown by unmanned warplanes...
...Pentagon took a key step toward unmanned aerial warfare in February, when a $3 million Predator drone that was initially designed for spying was able to destroy a tank by aiming and firing a Hellfire missile with help from its ground-based controller...