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Like many baby boomers who radically alter their health habits, Angwin had an "aha" moment. Two years ago, his doctor warned that his high blood pressure and diabetes were potentially lethal. At the time, says Angwin, "I was the same size and age as my father when he died of a massive heart attack, so the message hit home...
...will bail you out for a price. Meera Rescue is one. Based in Delhi, the company has airlifted injured trekkers from Himalayan slopes and evacuated executives stabbed in the West Indian jungles. It charges $1,530 an hour for a helicopter and $2,500 for a jet. The accompanying doctor will set you back $500 a day, and paramedics $200 each...
...this all-girl school, the teacher asks, "Who wants to be a teacher?" Many girls stand up. "An engineer?" "A doctor?" Each time, most of the girls happily stand up. "And who wants to be President of Afghanistan?" This time, only Noqreh stands. President? she thinks. Why not? For a start, she'll run for president of her class. But family problems soon overwhelm her ambitions. There's no water, and no milk for her sister's newborn child. And no place to stay. People find shelter in the hull of an abandoned plane or in the ruins...
...Heartfelt and handsomely made, Osama is full of vignettes showing the depredations of autocratic theocracy. When a Taliban inspector arrives at a hospital where a female doctor is treating an old man, the doctor must quickly don a burqa and claim that she is the wife of her patient's son. We know that a happy ending in reality?indeed, if it is an ending and if it is happy?came only years later, with the overthrow of the Taliban. But the two Afghan films give a lesson that other directors, at Cannes and beyond, could learn from: that life...
...father, a doctor, passed away when she was very young, and Maddox grew up taking care of her invalid mother...