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...million abroad. I'd say that United 93 was snubbed for two reasons: because a lot of people were reluctant, perhaps afraid, to relive 9/11, and because, for the Academy, all Oscar politics is local. Crash proved that last year. It was the ultimate L.A. movie - a drama about car violence on the interracial highway - while United 93 is the ultimate New York movie. Its shot of a passenger jet cruising into a Manhattan skyscraper pretty much defines pornography (in the bad sense) for Gothamites. But the nation's largest city has little clout in the Academy membership...
...title," says Sanghera, in a strong Midlands accent, from her home in Derby. "I get intimidating phone calls, saying my kids will be hurt, my legs chopped off if I don't return their daughter. I've had human feces smeared on my window and signs painted on my car." Her brother was beaten by a gang for being the brother of "that bitch who helps girls run away from home...
...Hizballah-led opposition launched its campaign on Dec. 1 with a massive rally in central Beirut and an open-ended sit-in which initially saw thousands of protestors camping out in car parks and squares ringed by Lebanese troops, coiled razor wire and armored vehicles. The opposition has demanded the creation of a national unity government followed by fresh parliamentary elections. But the number of protestors has dwindled in recent days as the campaign began showing signs of fatigue in the face of a government which has roughly equal public support, and seems determined not to buckle under pressure from...
...young women had survived the car crash, after a fashion. In the five months since parts of her brain had been crushed, she could open her eyes but didn't respond to sights, sounds or jabs. In the jargon of neurology, she was judged to be in a persistent vegetative state. In crueler everyday language, she was a vegetable...
...EXTREME EXAMPLE OF HOW CHANGES IN the input reaching the brain can alter its structure is the silence that falls over the somatosensory cortex after its owner has lost a limb. Soon after a car crash took Victor Quintero's left arm from just above the elbow, he told neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego that he could still feel the missing arm. Ramachandran decided to investigate. He had Victor sit still with his eyes closed and lightly brushed the teenager's left cheek with a cotton swab...