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Whoever did kill Litvinenko wasn't an amateur. British authorities announced last Friday that he had ingested a radioactive toxin, polonium 210, and that police had found traces of it in three locations: a sushi bar where Litvinenko had eaten lunch, a hotel he had visited on the same day and his home. Polonium 210 is so rare and volatile that the assassin would have needed access to a high-security nuclear laboratory to obtain it. Moscow denies that it had anything to do with the death. At a meeting with European officials in Helsinki, Vladimir Putin called the death...
...lengthy online debate between gamers. Some posters denounce it for being overly “emo,” or for not conveying any information about the title’s gameplay, or even the plot.A more interesting, and often hilarious, reaction has come from a cadre of amateur remixers, whose alternate visions of the ad can be found on YouTube. They feature the original footage set to wildly different musical backgrounds, from the absurd (“Stayin’ Alive” and the “Ghostbusters” theme) to the oddly appropriate (Billy Joel?...
...calculatedly amateur--wiggly--style gives her drawings an unpretentious air that allows viewers to be surprised by their greatness. But however ardently they flirt with profundity, Chast's cartoons are always rooted in the regular humiliations of daily life. Earlier this year, a cartoon came to her full blown, right on the sofa where she's sitting for this interview. Her daughter was doing her homework and listening to a CD. "Sometimes you just kind of want to see if they're paying any attention to you, you know?" Chast says. "So I started to do a little dance...
...nowhere, a roving war correspondent and an adventure travel guide failed to click with audiences, and there was even discussion of having a newscast read by puppets. This year, scaling back its ambitious plans to produce TV-styled shows, the Media Group has enjoyed some cult success with an amateur video anthology series called The 9. And last week, a Yahoo Talent Show was launched, offering the winner $50,000 and a regular "show" on the site...
...cousin is a professional amateur photographer. He shoots for local newspapers sometimes. All my training is from my cousin, basically. He taught me a lot through experience. I learned by playing around with the camera and all the settings, just generally by actually doing. He has a lot of great equipment I get to use when we go on trips together...