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Some children find a box of toys sent from the future. The toys start to teach them, and it turns out the kids have a role in saving mankind. It's kind of a spiritual scientific journey...
...Host is itself a bizarre hybrid: both a popular hit (South Korea's all-time box-office champ) and a critics' choice, having played to acclaim at the Cannes and New York festivals. The film's plot is also pretty splitty: part old-time sea- or sewer-mutant movie in the tradition of Godzilla and Them! and part trigenerational comedy-drama about a weird family--sort of a Little Miss Korean Sunshine. The difference is that instead of a dead old man in the van, the Park family has a little girl (Ko A-sung) missing in the belly...
...vibrant. Workers average a new deployment, a step in developing new-media services, every 2 1/2 weeks. They are people who are motivated by how they leave an imprint on their world. And one thing is certain: television will never be the same. MobiTV has liberated TV from the box in the living room and transformed it into what more than one person calls the "65-year-old killer...
...policemen were part of a group operating within Guatemala's security forces who were responsible for drug trafficking and death-squad style killings. The four were murdered before they could reveal the full extent of their allegedly illegal activities. "They were killed to keep the lid on Pandora's box," said El Salvador's chief of police Rodrigo Avila...
...Americans who choose to donate to the public financing system has decreased from 27.5 percent in 1976 to 9.2 percent in 2004. While this is a shamefully low number, polls have shown that when voters become aware of how easy it is to donate—by checking a box on your tax returns—support for donations increased to roughly 70 percent. The American people, however, cannot be expected to support such a program if the candidates they support are opting...