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...reality and hallucination, feel coming home. "In Iraq, it takes American soldiers maybe a few days to go back home, giving them a little time to adjust," says Folman. "For me, it was a 20-minute helicopter ride and I was back in Haifa, where the war didn't exist." We follow his shell-shocked, teenaged self as he wanders the streets, numbly watching a rock guitarist on a store TV, kids in an arcade blasting video baddies, and finally his ex-girlfriend dancing with another guy under disco lights that are like the flares showering down on Beirut...
...colonoscopies - for detecting lung, prostate, breast and colorectal cancers. The death rates for these diseases have dropped, according to recent data. Meanwhile, mortality for liver, esophageal and pancreatic cancers have risen in many populations - and it is probably no coincidence that regular, reliable tests for those conditions don't exist...
...coincidence that, when these practical exigencies do exist, the U.S. abandons its hard-line opposition to genocide in all its forms. The government of Turkey, one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East, not only vehemently denies the thoroughly documented slaughters and deportations of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I by Ottoman authorities, but has actually prosecuted its citizens for insinuating any such events occurred...
...mythical realm of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. Jackson has said the ranch was intended to recreate the magical childhood experiences that stardom denied him. "It's like stepping into Oz," he once said. "Once you come in the gates, the outside world does not exist...
...concerned with violence, disaster or population explosion. The artist seems in search of a sort of mimesis of consciousness for the modern man—a clustered, disorienting rush of disconnected, yet inexplicably related dialogues on history, culture and gender as they have traveled through time and how they exist now.A baffling, fascinating figure to the end, Conner twice insisted on memorializing himself based on an incorrectly predicted date of death. He had written his own obituary and wrote a description of himself for the encyclopedia “Who Was Who in America.” If Conner...