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...This is far from ordinary mainland movie fare. Shot on a scale few Asian filmmakers have attempted, China's first disaster picture, Crash Landing, assumes a Bruckheimeresque bravura. Modeled loosely on the 1970 disaster epic Airport, this reworking and its often realistic digital effects suggest China's sense of cinema as solid commercial entertainment has arrived. The film is a wake-up call to the country's domestic industry and should set alarm bells ringing in the rest of the world...
...That's the kind of slit-throat warfare the Pentagon tried to prepare the public for early in the conflict. But so far there hasn't been much of it. Some planned commando infiltrations have been sabotaged by sandstorms, sleet and Taliban resistance. Bad weather caused the crash last Friday of an MH-53 Pave Low helicopter in northern Afghanistan, injuring four crewmen. U.S. F-14s blew up the wreckage of the downed helicopter to prevent its secret equipment from falling into hostile hands. Pentagon officials dismissed Taliban claims that it had shot down the helicopter and killed...
...that gives household members their own passworded access to different versions of the same computer's desktop, and the new system delivers souped-up handling of photos, music and videos. But XP's main advantage over older Windows versions is improved reliability, some of it achieved by ditching the crash-prone Windows 95 and 98 code. "It's like an iceberg," says Mark Specker, an analyst at Soundview Technology Group. "All of its biggest improvements are below the surface...
With so many U.S. companies seeking Chapter 11 protection, their overseas subsidiaries are getting a crash course in American bankruptcy laws. Whereas bankruptcy in most countries means a company must liquidate its assets, U.S. laws allow the company to continue to operate. But in this age of instant communication, companies sometimes have a problem getting the right message to their employees--and customers and suppliers--abroad. Employees "hear about a filing being made and think, 'Oh, my God, I'll lose my job,'" says Michael Sitrick, CEO of Sitrick & Co., a communications firm that specializes in crisis management. "You have...
...people in the plane crashes probably were sweating," said Marisa Belpedio, a ponytailed nine-year-old, gasping for breath. "In the Twin Towers, people were sweating because of the fire. When I'm running, I feel I'm sweating...like I was there with them. That makes me feel better because sometimes I dream that I was in there and I helped the other people before I helped myself." Alexis Momney, a dark-eyed 10-year-old, also found the exercise cathartic. "When I look on TV, all I see is plane crashes and stuff, and I'm scared that...