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There is something so otherworldly about these frames. They evoke the hyper-realist, pop illustration style of Maxfield Parrish and the uneasy, richly detailed backgrounds of da Vinci, yet they are photographs, with the texture and versimilitude that implies. Like shots of the long climb up the "escarpment" in the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan pictures from the same period, they immediately summon the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. This is fantasy on a grand scale...
...More than 40 U.S. firms are working with U.S., Russian and Ukrainian investigators to help locate the hackers, agents say, noting that the number of victim companies could climb into the hundreds, and the costs into the hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...Sharon is prepared to lift the closure of the West Bank and Gaza and allow Palestinians to return to jobs in Israel, but not until the violence stops. There are positive signs from the Palestinians that if Sharon takes a few confidence-building measures, that may help them climb down from the branch onto which they've hauled themselves. When Barak came to power, Arafat wanted tangible things, like the withdrawal of troops from some land and other small measures - he didn't want to have to go to Camp David and negotiate a final deal. And so with Sharon...
...climb on the ledge just yet. Greenspan knows how to handle politicians, and he must know when not to worry about them. Bush is facing a House divided and a Senate split right down the middle, and to an economist, gridlock is always preferred. Even if the cut passes in full - which Dennis Hastert has already placed in doubt - any economic impact is at least a year away, long after Greenspan's spring landing has been judged soft or hard by economists...
Though the technique may help unravel ancient medical riddles, Sallares isn't claiming it has explained why Rome fell. While malaria is debilitating and people would have done less work, he says, "they would have moved to the hilltops because mosquitoes don't like to climb mountains...