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...there will be: the more multinational companies, multicultural beings and planetary networks are crossing and transcending borders, the more other forces will, as if in response, fashion new divisions and aggravate old ones. Human nature abhors a vacuum, and it is only natural, when people find themselves in a desert, without boundaries, that they will try to assuage their vulnerability by settling into a community. Thus fewer and fewer wars take place these days across borders, and more and more take place within them...
...latest animated project from Disney combines the most recent technological advancements in character animation with real, albeit digitally enhanced, live-action backgrounds filmed in such bizarre sites as the Mojave Desert. The plot is typical and uncreative, yet sounds somewhat fantastic: a dinosaur gets separated from its family as an egg and is raised a by a group of lemur monkeys. The asteroid that supposedly wipes out the dinosaurs hits earth, and the dinosaur, who has been reunited with his kind, acts like a sort of Dino-Moses who saves the day with canny primate-know-how. Although there...
...talking to sporting equipment and riding a toilet to freedom: Is that box-office gold or what? "It definitely took someone of [Hanks' and Zemeckis'] level to get this movie made," says screenwriter William Broyles (Apollo 13). Hanks hooked up with him to develop a pet idea: a modern desert-island story--the stuff of sitcoms and New Yorker cartoons--told 100% realistically. No Man Friday. No "bamboo bicycle that powers a generator," as Hanks puts it. "The influence of Gilligan's Island on our national psyche has been extremely powerful." To prepare, Broyles spent a few days with experienced...
Close readers of Notebook will recall that last year a mistaken "crash command" sent a $45 million GLOBAL HAWK pilotless aircraft crashing into the desert. Last week the Air Force detailed another Global Hawk spy-drone embarrassment. This one happened on the ground...
...such efforts have triggered grumbling inside the Pentagon. Some officers see the food-stamp issue as a mere symbol, a problem for which pols can come up with a "fix," declare victory and then desert the military force's deeper woes. "Food stamps are only a sound bite," says Joyce Raezer of the National Military Family Association, which fights to improve the lot of military families. "There are a lot more pressing issues." Housing, for example: there are 500,000 old and decrepit military housing units needing repair. McCain's plan to reduce the number of troops on food stamps...