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...chain saw. Dressed like members of some death-metal rock band, complete with pale white makeup and black leather body armor, the bad guys decapitate and dismember with glee, wielding savage hooks and spears. Tsui's camera lingers on slashed throats and chopped hands twitching in the dirt. Even the good guys use massive medieval swords with serrated edges, weapons that seem better suited to Conan the Barbarian than elegant martial-arts masters. The brutality is underscored by the harsh desert scenery of Xinjiang. Tsui takes out the arts and leaves the martial?but it's arresting to watch...
DIED. VASSAR CLEMENTS, 77, low-key, genre-busting bluegrass fiddler whose inability to read music didn't impede a lengthy career that included high-profile gigs with Paul McCartney, B.B. King and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, among others; of cancer; in Nashville...
...minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder of life survive unmolested in the pristine Dulong Valley in northwestern Yunnan province. You can now see for yourself, thanks to a new dirt road connecting the valley to the nearest town, Gongshan. Anthropologists need not be worried about a tourist invasion: it takes nine hours to drive this precarious 90-km track, followed by several hours of trekking, before you reach the area where the Dulong live. That means only the most committed...
...secret to some of the best HBO series is dirt. Not filthy language, not nudity--actual dirt. The muck in the streets of Deadwood, Tony Soprano's soldiers exhuming an incriminating body, the Fisher family tossing shovelfuls in the grave as Six Feet Under buried its lead character Nate--all this soil embodies the network's insistence on deprettifying its subjects...
...aware of the massive technological blind spot that allows criminals and terrorists to communicate undetected on American soil. But so far, it can't figure out what to do about VOIP--short for voice over Internet protocol, the dirt-cheap phone service that lets users make calls via their cable or DSL modems. Law-enforcement snoops can't tap into conversations or identify the location of callers, even with court orders authorizing surveillance. Given that the number of Internet phone users is expected to triple this year, to 2.8 million, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week responded...