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...film follows Chow's erotic adventures for the next decade or so, mainly with the alluring Bai Ling (Zhang Ziyi), and occasionally dips into the past, in reveries of Lulu the vamp (Carina Lau) and the tragic-masked Su Lizhen (Gong Li). Chow is now a writer of science-fiction novels. They take him and the audience into the year 2046, where he dallies with the android Wang Jing-wen (Faye Wong...
...year 2100. Rising temperatures could melt the ice caps, which would raise the sea level globally, swamping coastal cities like New York. Droughts would follow in some places, torrential rains in others, devastating agriculture. It doesn't take Dennis Quaid to connect the dots. Climate change isn't science fiction; it's already happening. And when the oceans rise and the rain starts falling, Republicans and Democrats will find themselves equally wet. --With reporting by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
Nothing on corporate balance sheets so symbolizes the excesses of the 1990s as the towering debt left behind by fallen CEOs who couldn't control their acquisitive urges. Accordingly, their successors are deleveraging. The prize for the biggest reduction goes to Thierry Breton, a sometime science-fiction novelist who moved from Thomson to take over France Telecom in September 2002. He is paring the France Telecom work force by about 22,000, or 15%, mainly through attrition, and he has linked the pay of thousands of managers to tough performance targets. Debt tumbled from $66.7 billion to $51 billion...
...mystery, however, came to the pair during their senior year of college. “When Ian discovered the Hynerotomachia Poliphili in a class at Princeton, we thought what kind of story can we connect around this, and how can we use it to generate an interesting piece of fiction,” Thomason said in a phone interview...
...managed to include all these components in a style reminiscent of Dan Brown, combining fact and fiction with such ease that the reader becomes enthralled in the story, and loses all sense of what is historically true, and what?...