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...during the discussion afterward as in the theater. She had chosen Polissons et Galipettes, a compilation of vintage French blue movies. Art or pornography? That's a question neither Michel nor her boyfriend had the opportunity to discuss that August evening in 2002 because Michel, who suffers from brittle-bone disease and gets around in a wheelchair, was barred by a cinema employee from entering the MK2 Beaubourg theater next to the Pompidou Center. The discussion that did ensue was about access rights for people with disabilities. And Michel is taking her case all the way to the French courts...
Maybe not, according to a study of 18 strict raw-food vegetarians in the current issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. While those on raw-food diets had lower BMIs, body fat and bone mass, their bones did not appear fracture prone...
...North Korea kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and held them for decades. He tried repairing the damage by sending five of the abductees home in the following months. The remaining eight, according to North Korea, had died. Last November, Pyongyang returned to Japan the cremated ashes and bone fragments of Megumi Yokota, who was kidnapped in her hometown of Niigata in 1977 at the age of 13, and allegedly committed suicide in 1994. Tokyo ran DNA tests on the remains and announced they weren't Yokota's. Public anger ran white hot: conservative politicians and Yokota's parents...
...Dungeon" represent the four chapters of the series known in Europe as the "Zenith" group. This Fall NBM will next publish the series that takes place 100 years prior to "Zenith," followed by the series that takes place after "Zenith." Readers may be reminded of Jeff Smith's gigantic "Bone" series (see TIME.comix review), which coincidentally is now being reprinted in full color by Scholastic books, but "Dungeon" doesn't have quite the cohesive, epic story of "Bone." It also contains more explicit, but still "cartoony" violence and includes a few adult words. If it were animated, it would probably...
...only European flag carrier making money on short-haul" regional flights, points out Joe Gill, research director at Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin. Walsh clipped Aer Lingus' staff numbers by about a third and trimmed costs, part of a "culture to pare everything down to the bone," says Gill. But the ex-pilot failed to push through further job cuts before his departure in January. And rising fuel costs and chronic staff troubles could make it hard to get similar steps at BA off the ground. - By Adam Smith Trading Flaws Frankfurt's Deutsche Börse bowed to pressure from...