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...developing countries, women are especially affected by the brunt of poverty, Heyzer said. In addition to shouldering the bulk of the burden for keeping their families fed and clothed, she said, women are consistently short-changed in the distribution of the scarce resources which they themselves gather...
...well-crafted annecdote, Exotica is an exploration of desire, loss, betrayal, obsession, and the ways in which people carefully construct reality to make their lives manageable. Egoyan does not present the viewer with a baby-food film, in which the contents are simple, mashed to a pulp, and spoon-fed. He poses questions and exposes searches, which are sometimes pleasant, often disqueting. His is a cinema of investigation, not of morals or simple answers...
...create and disseminate its own distinctive sounds. Another practitioner on the rise is Italian astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi, 30, who has been described as a cross between Madonna and Carl Sagan. Terenzi has used audio telescopes to intercept radio waves from a galaxy 180 million light-years away, then fed them into a computer, applied a sound-synthesis program to convert her data into music and produced Music from the Galaxies. Result: part New Age, part Buck Rogers sound track, played on an oscilloscope. The Future Sound of London, one of Britain's trendiest club bands, performed ``live'' last November...
...Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan endorsed plans to let banks expand their dealings in Wall Street securities. Testifying to the House Banking Committee today, Greenspan said limited stock and bond dealings by banks so far have proven they can properly manage market risks without endangering federally insured deposits. Greenspan praised committee chairman Jim Leach's (R-Iowa) plan to repeal major provisions of the Depression-era Glass Steagall Act, which bans banks from dealing in securities. Some banks have used a loophole to engage in limited securities underwriting since the late1980s. Leach, the Clinton Administration and Sen. Alfonse D'Amato...
...Everyone on the team fed off the crowd," Proudfit said. "We said at halftime `It's great to have such a good crowd...