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...there's one thing that commercial American films know how to do, it's fill a screen with splendor. A huge screen, like the one in the Grand Palais' Lumiere theater, makes any Hollywood-style movie look better. Basic Instinct, no world-beater, had a pearly, febrile glamour when it was shown on opening night here 13 years ago. And Sith, a spiffy catalog of the things Hollywood does best, found its perfect showcase in the Lumiere. Of course the audience of 2,400 exulted when the Star Wars logo first appeared; that happens any time...
...Chinese money referred to as both yuan and renminbi. What's the difference? The latter is the official name of Chinese currency (translation: people's money). The former is the basic monetary unit, like the U.S.$1 note...
...editorially] neutral," says Jo Groebel, director general of the Dortmund-based European Institute for the Media. Stripped of ideological or political bias, Metro lacks personality, insists Peter Cole, a professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield: "People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate has been around as long as newspapers themselves. "Free papers reach a broad cross section of the population," points out Ingela Wadbring, researcher at the University of Gothenburg...
...world's first clinical trial of patient-derived oegs on human spinal-cord injuries, whose first results are due to be published this year, is led by Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, of Queensland's Griffith University. He says too many questions about Huang's procedure - even questions as basic as exactly what cells are used - remain. "These are extremely vulnerable people, and he's doing procedures that have no real scientific justification." Dr. Ann Turnley, of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Neuroscience, suspects that in some cases where patients have shown improvement, what's really at work...
...abetting their suffering. Former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with the North is denounced as a prop for Kim Jong Il's shaky regime. China, which treats refugees as illegal immigrants and repatriates them to face a nightmarish fate, is criticized for ignoring basic Geneva Convention obligations. The United Nations gets the harshest criticism. Becker spends a chapter cataloging the failures of U.N. aid agencies during North Korea's famine. Their chief mistake, he writes, was their failure to speak out in protest against Kim: "This undermined the credibility of those that accused...