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...movie is at pains to prove it has no color prejudice. It give us one blue creature who's benign (Kelsey Grammer's hirsute Hank McCoy, head of the Ministry of Mutant Affairs) and one blue meanie (Rebecca Romijn's Mystique). But it has no secret technology to transform tired ideas into a vivid movie. Instead it ransacks the fantasy-film trunk for hand-me-down thrills, and counts on the sleek beauty of Romijn, Famke Janssen (quite fetching as Class 5 mutant Jean Gray) Halle Berry (the wonder weather woman Storm) to lure the boy market into theaters...
...drugs to be developed would slow the build-up in the eye over time of retinotoxic molecules called lipofusins—the cause of AMD—according to Rando. These toxins cause degeneration of the macula, the part of the retina that controls keenness of vision and color vision, sometimes to the point of complete blindness. “Every time light is absorbed in the retina...it produces a chemically reactive by-product,” Rando said. He explained that this by-product ought to be recycled by the eye, but its instability sometimes causes...
...Unlike race or class, caste is not something that can be read in the color of one's skin or in the cut of one's clothes. Caste is written in a far more nuanced language of family name, livelihood, origin and identity politics; yet it is an issue that has managed to polarize the nation. Urban Indians, increasingly categorized by wealth, say that caste has no bearing on the kind of jobs they can get, yet classified matrimonial ads often list caste as a principal criterion in the search for a suitable spouse. In the countryside, caste defines...
...documenting a sharp increase in the number of crimes committed by far-right groups over the past year. And this comes after a dire "no go" warning, issued earlier this month by a former government spokesman who now heads an anti-racism advocacy group, that if people "with different color skin" travel to parts of eastern Germany, "they may not come out alive...
...nagging rolling-hand carpal tunnel has hampered his production, Gilmore remains as intimidating as ever. Opposing players still band together against him, pooling resources and trading just to prevent him from buying property. Yet Gilmore has the patience of a Zen master; sooner or later, someone will leave a color open, and he will monopolize on the mistake...