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...working with movie studios to release 3-D editions of movies, timed to coincide with the first group of TVs. Broadcast networks are paying close attention too - ESPN broadcast the Sept. 12 USC vs. Ohio State college-football game in 3-D as a pilot test, and in Britain there are already stations dedicated to 3-D content...
...Should patients be nervous? Scientists have for years been examining the patient risk associated with a changeover of medical staff. Smaller studies conducted over the past two decades in Britain and the U.S. - where researchers label it the "July phenomenon," after the month in which medical students usually begin training - have often proved inconclusive. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...
...From her first appearance at an E.U. summit in December 2005, when Merkel helped break a deadlock between Britain and France on the budget, the Chancellor has gained a reputation as a shrewd and effective negotiator. Her low-key foreign policy has been in keeping with the consensual style of government imposed on her by an electoral system that forced her Christian Democrats (CDU) into a grand coalition with the largest opposition party, the Social Democrats (SPD). But it's also the manifestation of a history that has left Germany reluctant to intervene in the affairs of other countries. (Read...
...Although representatives of six world powers - the U.S. Britain, Germany, France, Russia and China - are to meet with their Iranian counterparts in Turkey on Oct. 1 in pursuit of a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff, there's little optimism over the prospects for a compromise. The U.S. and European powers are demanding that Iran forgo its right to enrich uranium even for energy purposes in exchange for a series of economic and diplomatic rewards, but Tehran has ruled out renouncing that right. And Israel has repeatedly warned that if the diplomatic outreach fails, it is prepared to resort...
...cancellation shocked gay-rights activists and foreign observers alike. "I was disappointed to hear that the parade had been cancelled," Stephen Wordsworth, Britain's ambassador to Serbia, wrote in his blog on the embassy's website. "Those people who had wanted to demonstrate peacefully had lost. Those who were prepared to use all means to stop them had won." Some Serbian politicians were even more forceful in their condemnation: "The state has capitulated under threats of fascists," Zarko Korac, a parliament member from the Social Democratic Union party, was quoted as saying by the Serbian news website Pescanik...