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...quality never degrades. Shown by a digital projector, every movie, whether it's a grainy, black-and-white indie drama or a blockbuster killer-thriller, looks exactly as the filmmaker intended. Every time. The digital system at the Curzon is one of 238 being installed in movie theaters across Britain and Northern Ireland over the next two years by the government-backed U.K. Film Council (ukfc). It's the start of the world's first large-scale rollout of digital cinema systems, and leads the way for similar changeovers in the rest of Europe, Asia and the U.S. The goal...
DIED. LORD LICHFIELD, 66, dashing photographer of Britain's élite; after a stroke; in London...
SPERM SHORTFALL IN BRITAIN British students who donate sperm for beer money suddenly got shy when they learned that laws protecting their anonymity were about to change. The number of applicants at Newcastle Fertility Center--a leading collection point--fell from...
...decided to live in Japan. The U.S. has no room for traitors. Bradford Paik Beaverton, Oregon, U.S. Tarnished Pearl As our Milestone on the death of Uganda's former leader Milton Obote pointed out [Oct. 24], he went from determined and skillful architect of his country's independence from Britain to repressive politician. TIME described the devastating condition of Uganda under his rule 21 years...
...scale civilian massacres, forced starvation and impeded humanitarian relief operations indicate that Uganda has one of the most serious human rights problems in the world today' ... At one time known as the 'Pearl of Africa,' Uganda has been beset by tribal rivalries ever since it won its independence from Britain in 1962 ... Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams put it, 'to dry up the civilian sea that the guerrillas swim in' ... Some analysts suspect that the army may be out of Obote's control...