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...Security Council referral. Could the U.S. turn a blind eye to jurisdiction by the I.C.C., which is, after all, an "internationally accepted means"? "You can dovetail that, but I can't," says the U.S. spokesman. While the U.N. debates, hundreds die in the region every day. - By Maryann Bird Food Fright BRITAIN A U.K. food scare involving the banned dye Sudan 1 - shown to be carcinogenic in rats - spread to 15 other, mostly European, countries. Britain issued an alert on Feb. 18 when Premier Foods reported that it found traces of Sudan 1 in a batch of chili powder...
Warren House, with its tasteful Big Bird-yellow exterior, features a curious musty smell that suits the home of the Celtic Studies and Folklore and Mythology departments. It also boasts a period bathroom, complete with its own pull-chain toilet...
...than 320,000 foreigners holidayed in Dubrovnik (pop. 37,000) last year, up from 250,000 in 2002. "Dubrovnik is a jewel," says Ed Serotta, a Vienna-based historian and frequent visitor. He recommends a stroll on the 11/4-mile medieval wall encircling the city; on one side is a bird's-eye view of white stone architectural treasures and on the other a panorama of unspoiled coastline and open sea. "It will make your jaw drop," Serotta says...
Inspiration is a rare and flighty bird. Most of us never catch a glimpse of it. Very occasionally it settles down helpfully in the corner, cawing advice to artists as they pile up those bodies of work on which their hopes of immortality rest. More usually--and this was the case with Arthur Miller--it touches down briefly, then darts away. The artist may catch tantalizing sight of the creature as he walks on through the woods, but it never again perches long on his shoulder...
Director Francis Lawrence (from music videos, of course) shoots a scene from every possible angle--curbside, bird's-eye view--so that the cameramen have to be stuntmen. There's both eye and mind candy in this cleverly berserk spawn of Blade Runner...