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...Glasses. We're almost 60 years into the era of showing 3-D in theaters, and you still have to take an eye test to see the movies. Putting on glasses, even the Ray-Ban type now handed out in theaters, does not remove barriers to the appreciation of movies (as director Peter Jackson insists); it is a barrier. Imagine the popular resistance to the first talkies if audiences had to don headsets to hear Al Jolson sing "Swanee." What would the odds on the success of three-strip Technicolor have been if people had to wear specs...
...French companies. French commentators have noted how such business-as-usual tightness with African cronies, whose track record on democracy and human rights often leaves much to be desired, contrasts with Sarkozy's earlier pledges to break with Paris' traditional Françafrique policy of turning a blind eye to authoritarianism and corruption to maintain healthy relations with stable African allies. (See pictures of the Pope's recent visit to Africa...
Head injuries are very common--on the order of 1.5 million in the U.S. last year. Most people shake them off, but many don't. The signs of a serious hit are a headache that gets worse, confusion, disorientation and vomiting. Slurred speech, sleepiness, a droopy eye and clumsiness are also signals, as is any kind of amnesia. And the signs may not be obvious. "They gradually progress," says Dr. Carmelo Graffagnino, director of the neuroscience critical-care unit at Duke University. "Then suddenly it gets to the critical point that a person can't be woken...
...ambitious goal - but Baucus is not used to giving up. At age 67, he still pushes himself to do 50-mile ultra?marathons. Running one in Maryland in 2003, Baucus fell at mile 8 but still managed to finish the remaining 42, bleeding from above his right eye. On health care too, Baucus knows that there may be a few bumps between him and the finish line...
There are definitely dangers to media blitzes, as Obama's TV week proved. Too many just-for-fun bits, like his ESPN bracket pick, could make him look as if he has his eye on the wrong ball. (Which may be why he said he didn't stay up to watch a six-overtime game because "I've got work to do.") Every time he forces himself to say, "I'm as angry as anybody about those bonuses," it sounds clearer that he's not as angry as anybody. And he may actually do better in tough Q&As, like...