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...original version of this article implied that television advertisements for Cypher were the first direct-to-consumer advertising for a medical device. Cypher was the first company to advertise percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty with drug-eluting coronary stents, but other types of medical devices had been advertised on television previously. Also, a previous version of the article stated that Duke researcher Ruth Day had no financial connection to the Food & Drug Administration. She has worked as a consultant for FDA in the past, but her research is not funded...
...short-film competition, which started about 12 years ago, there were very few entries then, but now they get over 100. There are all these polytechnics having film courses. I've noticed this whole change in how many young Singaporeans that want to be filmmakers want to direct. My last feature, My Magic, was basically filmed by students from LaSalle [College of the Arts]. I mean, of course, when you read what they write, their experiences in life are limited. But when you see them in terms of the technical know-how, they are much more superior...
...turned out, maybe it shouldn't be.) But others have taken up the cause. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has called for the U.N. Security Council to authorize outsiders to bring in and deliver aid no matter what the junta says; David Cameron, leader of Britain's Conservatives, advocates direct airdrops to the Burmese people. The European Union's foreign policy chief said, "We have to use all means" to get aid to those still at risk...
Frank read his adopted nation as very few other photographers had in the mid-1950s. He saw it through the filter of his own somber disposition, to be sure, but with a conviction that the most direct route into the heart of things was by way of what were supposed to be the margins. He liked to be anyplace he could find people who were forlorn, pensive, manic or needy. Exaltation attracted him too. What other word to apply to the mood of that intense man in white praying at the water's edge in Mississippi River, Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
...today, in front of a supportive audience at the Israeli Knesset, Bush went right at Obama. He mocked those who "believe we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along." Last July, Obama said he supported direct and unconditional talks with the leaders of Iran and North Korea, among others, and though he has backed away from that position, his primary campaign has made much of the need for negotiation over confrontation. Today Bush called that approach "the false comfort of appeasement...