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...inhabitants. His mother wrapped him in a blanket and fled through knee-deep water to a temple nearby, where hundreds of people-mostly very young children-now shelter. Kyaw Zin Htay is too weak to struggle or cry when his mother pulls aside the blanket to display his emaciated limbs. He survived Burma's biggest natural disaster in living memory, but his short life will almost certainly end here, on a fly-blown concrete floor in a broken-down temple, waiting for help that might never come...
...Like the Downey film, Speed Racer is plenty satisfying in traditional action-movie terms. It boasts enough auto-erotic car-nage to make Grand Theft Auto IV seem, by comparison, like a junkyard jalopy. Beyond that, there's the edifying display of people taking control of their own destinies by building beautiful, useful machines. The heroes of Speed Racer and Iron Man could be the garage geeks who paved Silicon Valley with cybergold; or Hollywood's visual-effects alchemists, translating their fantasies into pixels to create gorgeous movies like these. Iron Man and Speed Racer are tributes to practical ingenuity...
...various points during Obama's bid for the Democratic nomination, all those skills have been on display. This is the story of how he mastered them...
...Committee. “After an initial investigation, we saw no signs of cruelty to animals,” McCabe said, adding that what was done to the corpses was “just bad decision-making.” “The University is dismayed by the display and will take steps to ensure it does not happen again,” HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said in an e-mailed statement. After HUPD investigated the incident, Catalano said they determined that no criminal activity had occurred. Boston media picked up on the story this weekend...
...gracious host would throw the match, but Fukuda might want to think twice before dropping his paddle: a display of national athletic prowess against an old rival might be just the tonic he needs to revive his moribund prime ministership. Since taking over from the hapless administration of Shinzo Abe in September 2007, Fukuda's team has managed to look even more inept and out of touch than Abe's on issues ranging from Japan's faltering economy to the appointment of a new central-bank governor. Initiatives by Fukuda's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) have been bottled...