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...oddball loners like Millar scribbling at drafting tables have also become the movie industry's most reliable development tool. Thanks to the box-office success of A-list superheroes like Spider-Man and the X-Men, Hollywood's appetite for comics-fueled material is insatiable. Titles from the darker corners of the genre, including gritty graphic novels like Wanted and Alan Moore's watershed deconstructivist superhero tome Watchmen are getting the big-screen makeover. Stories and characters first written for an audience of a few hundred thousand geeks at most are reaching, at the box office...
...situation that is made worse by the fact that the elderly tend to spend less time outdoors in the sunlight, which increases melatonin production in the pineal gland, causing sleep and mood disturbances. In earlier studies, Van Someren showed that Alzheimer's patients living in homes who preferred darker rooms were the most restless during the night. Combined with this study's findings, he now believes that the inactivity of these biological-clock cells can be reversed...
...British Roma researcher Adrian Marsh sees a darker agenda at work. "What we have is the most religious municipality in the country confronting what it deems to be a historically irreligious, immoral group," he says. "If they regenerated the community in a way that was inclusive, they'd have 3,000 extra votes, but they're not doing that. Why? Because they consider the Sulukule community unredeemable." Long-term solutions like allowing the Roma to set up legal music halls and generate income don't appeal to the Islamist-dominated local authority, because it doesn't want to promote that...
...Immensely Difficult Time ..." The stiffest challenge McCain's team faces is the nation's surly mood, which, if surveys are right, is only turning darker. From the giddy confines of the McCain campaign plane in late April, it was easy to imagine the Democratic Party bickering all the way to the August convention. Republicans were scratching their heads in disbelief at their good luck: McCain's approval ratings remained at near historic levels - at more than 60%, some 30 points ahead of the Republican Party brand's. "I think the way things are going, we could say that McCain...
...outpouring of support has been a revelation. For years, China's citizens couldn't watch the evening news without being reminded of their darker side, of the grasping, reckless self-interest that has characterized China's headlong rush to become wealthy and powerful--stories of slave labor and child-kidnapping rings, rampant government corruption, counterfeit products, tainted food, dangerous toys and, lately, the brutal crackdown on dissent in Tibet. But from a monstrous humanitarian crisis has come a new self-awareness, a recognition of the Chinese people's sympathy and generosity of spirit. The earthquake has been a "shock...