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...George Clooney, another of the film's stars, may not be in Toronto, but he was all over the place last year with Michael Clayton. Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Colin Farrell, Scarlett Johansson, Edward Norton, Renee Zellweger, Natalie Portman and dozens, hundreds more are expected to drop by for the birthing of their Academy hopefuls. As all these stars know, the process that ends next Feb. 22 on Oscar night begins Sept...
...alive, he embodies the notion of the voice as a pure instrument. "When he gets into a flat-out jazz setting," says Heckman, "he lets it all hang out. And when he gets into one of his extended scat solos on something like Take Five, even the instrumentalists' mouths drop open...
...Poles in the U.K. and Ireland were down a third on last year, and a recent report by the Institute for Public Policy Research estimated that about half of the million East Europeans who arrived since enlargement in 2004 have left. The Polish consulate in London estimates a 15% drop in new arrivals compared to last year, and expects about 300,000 to 400,000 Poles to remain in Britain - still a huge number to have settled in just a few years. "A lot of these migrants were not coming to build a new life for themselves," says Philip Whyte...
...street intersections that have become a transit fixture in much of the rest of the world. Because roundabouts force cars to travel through a crossroads in a slower but more free-flowing manner - unlike traffic circles, roundabouts have no stop signals - in seven years, Carmel has seen a 78% drop in accidents involving injuries, not to mention a savings of some 24,000 gal. of gas per year per roundabout because of less car idling. "As our population densities become more like Europe's," says Mayor Jim Brainard, who received a climate-protection award this year from the U.S. Conference...
About 1,000 roundabouts have been built in 25 states, and research bears out the benefits to states like Kansas, where the new design has produced a 65% average drop in vehicular delays, according to a recent Kansas State University study. Most roundabouts are also more aesthetically pleasing and cost much less to construct than stoplight intersections. The problem is teaching Americans how to navigate them. (Folks, cars entering a roundabout yield to those already in it.) But the heightened anxiety people feel in roundabouts makes them drive more carefully and remember that intersections are dangerous places...