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...exact. Coincidental with the handover from British to Chinese rule, the territory's thriving film community lost much of its spark. For decades, domestic product out-grossed the big Hollywood offerings, but Hong Kong has become just another struggling local mini-industry. Part of the problem is the brain drain to the U.S. of directors like Woo and top stars Chow Yun-fat and Jet Li. Even the great cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the Australian Emigr? whose bold, painterly eye set the palette for Wong Kar-wai's moody dramas, has gone traveling again...
...insurance companies won't pay for treatment. Even with the listing, they are sure to grumble about it. Shelling out for even one-twentieth of the cases of "persistent and painful feelings, behavior and perception involving two or more partners in an important personal relationship" (the proposed definition) could drain the Treasury in about 24 hours...
...John Shanley, director of the infectious disease division at the University of Connecticut in Farmington. That means wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants and using insect repellent during mosquito season. You should also practice mosquito control around your house. Clean out the rain gutters, remove old tires, and drain birdbaths or anything else that collects water where mosquitoes can breed. You can never eliminate risk, but in this case at least, you can control...
...prevent the same thing happening again. Bernhard Pelikan, a hydrologist at the Institute for Water Economy in Vienna, says the flooding in Austria was especially severe because of deforestation, intensive agriculture and heavy settlement around the river plains. All of these things, Pelikan argues, stop excess water from draining away and as a result "floods are higher and the water travels faster. You can, of course, say that the amount of rain caused the catastrophe, but it makes a big difference how fast that rain can drain away. We have to give the river more space." Klement Tockner, an aquatic...
...second largest cause of unnecessary deaths, according to the American Obesity Association. It can lead to such potentially dangerous, even life-threatening conditions as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and osteoarthritis. And those complaints translate into major doctors' (read: insurance) bills and lost days at work - a general drain, in other words, on the national coffers...