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...committee received a $250,000 grant from the Donner Foundation, a New York family organization concerned with international relations and education. Most of the grant will be used for language instruction and courses on international subjects...
...over the world. Six years ago, there were only four medical centers in the U.S. where teams of scientists were actively engaged in developing PET. Today there are about ten, including Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of California in Los Angeles and Donner Laboratory at Berkeley. There should be at least 15 different centers involved in PET scanning by 1983. By then Europe will have more than a dozen centers with PET equipment and Japan possibly ten. Says Wolf: "The field is just beginning to take off." -By Anastasia Toufexis
...result is a film far superior to its predecessor and fairly successful in its own right. There's no way you can take Superman seriously for more than two hours, and in Part I, director Richard Donner couldn't quite figure out how to make the transition from rock 'em-sock 'em plot to a little self-deprecating dialogue or visual humor. Richard Lester masters this problem early on, and with good performances from his stars, gets you to root for the good guys at the same time that you laugh at them...
...combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there is wit, even a sort of weird plausibility, in the action sequences that was not present in the first film. Since the major change in the credits is the substitution of Richard Lester for Richard Donner as director, it seems logical to single out the man who did A Hard Day's Night and The Three Musketeers as the one responsible for making Superman soar...
...traveled over one hundred miles by skateboard... We used to drive to the top of Donner Summit and come all the way down on our skateboards... We would do it at night on those four or five days near the full moon." For Klaussen mountain sports were a habitual, day-to-day activity, not relished as a special weekend treat...