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...film Blood: The Last Vampire, Japan's first digital feature-length anim?, which won critical acclaim from the likes of James Cameron and Quentin Tarantino. TV series derived from old movies tend to be as reliably bad as movies derived from old TV series, but Blood+ should buck the trend. The effects budget is high for TV, and Production I.G.?the team behind the original film and groundbreaking anim? such as Ghost in the Shell?signed on for the series, while Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer will contribute to the soundtrack. Sony, which has some experience with undead projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: Television | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...exclusion of everything else." Jindal, who served in the President's Administration, would like Bush to ask Colin Powell to come back to run the relief operation. Others urge Bush to rope in New York City's savior Rudy Giuliani. Given the President's own performance, passing the buck wouldn't be the worst thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dipping His Toe Into Disaster | 9/6/2005 | See Source »

DIED. ELWOOD (BUCK) PERRY, 90, enterprising angler who invented structure fishing-- a system of attracting deepwater fish by mapping out the underlying contours of a body of water, which he said revealed the routes taken by traveling fish--and the bottom-bumping Spoonplug lure to facilitate it; in Taylorsville, N.C. Although he patented the lure in 1946, his Spoonplug business did not take off until 1957, when he caught hundreds of bass at a demonstration at supposedly "fished-out" Lake Marie, near Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 12, 2005 | 9/4/2005 | See Source »

...couldn't keep discovering new ones. But Angell argues that the industry not only exaggerates the costs of bringing drugs to market but spends much more on marketing and administration than on research, which it prefers to leave to government-funded scientists, intervening only when it smells a buck. Its main business, she maintains, is producing minor variations on existing drugs - renamed and repackaged but usually no more effective - and backing them with lavish campaigns aimed at convincing doctors and the public that a remarkable new drug is in their midst. "Once upon a time drug companies promoted drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Pharma Syndrome | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

...BUCK UP THE BRAND

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons: Maytag's Blues | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

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