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...safe return from Iraq of Italian aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta - held hostage for three weeks in September - was another Berlusconi political coup that bore Letta's fingerprints. The effort was driven by backroom diplomacy, not the showmanship that comes so naturally to Berlusconi. Less than 24 hours before the hostages' liberation, Letta called in top opposition leaders for a confidential meeting. There was good news: the two Simonas were alive; a satellite had picked up the sound of their voices. Letta played the crackling tape to the opposition politicians. They agreed it was better to negotiate with...
...daily dialogues and conversations," he says. "I don't make a film so you can bring your popcorn and just enjoy yourself. But I would love the conditions and the colors of my country to change so I can make colorful, joyful films." That shift does not seem imminent. Driven as much by a sense of duty as the desire to create art, Ghobadi hopes to eventually turn out two films a year. And so he has already begun work on a "social comedy" directed by Ayoub Ahmadi, the lead in A Time for Drunken Horses. Ghobadi will produce...
...driven by a genuinely idealistic pragmatism, and by forging legislative coalitions of the willing, King actually accomplished dramatic change, and emerged among the nation’s most progressive governors—totally rebuilding mental health and corrections systems, instituting “e-government” to improve state services, doubling his state’s commitment to research and development, and adding more land to conservation than had ever been donated in Maine history...
...world's top experts on how to make computers simulate complex physical systems--such as waves, snowdrifts, viscoelastic fluids (goopy stuff, like mud) and (his favorite) explosions. His work lends a layer of reality to computer games and film animation in which wind, rain and other elements are driven by computer codes called physics engines. His algorithms are used in some PlayStation 2 software and at Pixar...
...Ross Hoffman has his way, weather will someday submit to the whim of man instead of the other way around. Hoffman, a principal scientist at the technology research firm Atmospheric & Environmental Research, in Lexington, Mass., forecasts a sunny future in which, say, stampeding typhoons could be safely corralled and driven back out to sea. The key to weather control, says Hoffman, is understanding that even the fiercest tempest is a delicate creature. And by exploiting the sensitivity of weather to tiny changes in the environment, Hoffman has successfully tamed two hurricanes, thus saving dozens of lives and billions of dollars...