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...coming directors are finding it hard to make the transition to mainstream features. Occasionally, established filmmakers will nurture protégés. To is producing medium-budget movies from editor and director Law Wing-cheong and screenwriter-director Yau Nai-hoi. Also nurturing talent is prolific filmmaker Eric Tsang, who produced Magic Boy, a vibrant 2007 love-triangle pic from second-time feature director Adam Wong, and Heiward Mak's recent debut High Noon, a drama of troubled youth shot with arresting flair...
...billions of years - and is now, thanks to human activity, making us too warm. When we think of carbon, the first word we associate with it is emissions, a concept that evokes a tinge of illegality, as if emitting a mere molecule of CO2 were a crime. But as Eric Roston points out in his engaging new book, The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat, C is about more than just CO2. "If you think about carbon only in terms of climate change, you're missing out," he says. "If you want...
Early studies of oxytocin's role in social interaction have yielded some interesting results. In a small 2006 experiment, Dr. Eric Hollander of New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine administered synthetic oxytocin and a placebo intravenously to 15 autistic adult patients; afterward, those who received oxytocin were better able to decipher emotions in tone of voice. Moreover, these improvements in social awareness lasted for nearly two weeks. (In 2006, Hollander filed a patent for the use of oxytocin to treat symptoms of autism spectrum disorders; the request is still pending). Investigators at Mount Sinai have also found that...
...essentially runs the country, was linked to the September 1985 murder of Dr. Hugo Spadafora, a leading critic of the Panamanian army. It is widely believed that Noriega forced Panamanian President Nicolas Ardito Barletta to resign after Barletta signaled his intention to investigate Spadafora's murder. Barletta's successor, Eric Arturo Delvalle, quickly came to Noriega's defense. Delvalle told reporters that all charges against the army chief had emanated from ''bad Panamanians involved in a conspiracy.'' Noriega, who stood at the President's side, charged that conspirators ''want to get the military out of their barracks.'' The swift denials...
...several hundred undergraduates on at least 15 campuses nationwide. By giving away content through the Web, Flat World aims to upend the $5.5 billion textbook industry. "Nobody's satisfied with the status quo. Students, faculty, authors - their feelings all range from ambivalent to extremely unhappy," says Flat World founder Eric Frank, a former executive at Prentice Hall, the nation's largest textbook publisher. "Why not try something different...