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...missing member. Her exact quote is missing too, but wags paraphrased it as: "Vincent Gallo stole my penis." The Brown Bunny has already entered movie lore as the worst film ever shown at a major festival. Cannes '03 may achieve a similar distinction. No one could recall a soggier batch of movies in the competition. The lures of the beach, lush weather and gorgeous people were never so seductive. As beautiful as it was outside the Palais, that's how depressing it was inside. Good movies, bad ones - and a huge batch of pictures that could be called ambitious mediocrities...
...models quickly. Major suppliers, some housed on site, receive orders 90 minutes before production time, cutting inventory costs for both parties. Nissan's suppliers also preassemble "modules," say, for a front-end or cockpit, and deliver them in the sequence in which they're needed on the line: a batch of leather-finished cockpits for SUVs, followed by plastic-finished versions and then different cockpits for pickup trucks. Nissan's paint shop was designed for high flexibility too, using robotic painters that are programmed to switch spray patterns based on the model...
...killed at least 89 since it began its rampage through the human population in China last fall. Projected onto a green phosphorescent screen by a beam of electrons and viewed through an optical device that resembles an upside-down periscope, the virus particles--this particular batch came from a relative of the Chinese doctor who became Hong Kong's first fatality on March 4--look chillingly like aliens in a sci-fi film. "There are the little buggers," says Dr. John Nicholls, a pathologist at the University of Hong Kong, leaning aside so a TIME reporter can take a look...
...council later passed a fresh batch of grants to student groups, responding to previously postponed spring grant requests from the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship and Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Christian Fellowship, among other requests...
...effort to commit the batch of grants back to FiCom for further consideration was defeated; the council passed the package unamended...