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...would be Aaron who would lose 25 pounds in the next two months. Swimming three to four hours every day, barely eating any food, he managed to bring himself to the brink of near-starvation. His eyes were dull in his bony face and his skin clung to his frame like gray sandpaper...
...military intervention persist. Warlords are in the ascendant, bedeviling efforts by the U.N. and Somalis to negotiate a political solution. Violent attacks on aid workers have increased, threatening to reverse any progress made in the past year. The prospect of renewed anarchy has brought many Somalis to the brink of despair. "It will never be stopped," laments Mohammed Haji Yusur, a doctor in the port of Kismayu, where clan warfare has once again filled his hospital with the dead and wounded. "It will never...
Pressures from poaching and human population growth have pushed the big cats to the brink of extinction. Can trade sanctions against nations that use tiger parts protect the animal when parks, police and appeals to public opinion have failed...
...Accompanist" is not a typical World War II flick. Though what action there is takes place in occupied France and war-torn London, reference to international conflicts serve only to illuminate the nature of individual characters. Focusing on Irene Brice (Elena Safonova), a diva on the brink of universal success, her husband Charles (Richard Bohringer), and her impoverished accompanist, Sophie Vasseur (Romane Bohringer), the movie--through lighting, facial close-ups, music, and symbols--studies personalities, not history...
TIME: Is Russia on the brink of hyperinflation...