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...which emit red-laser beams to read data, should be replaced with gear that uses blue lasers. That's because a blue laser's narrower, more efficient beam enables far more information to be packed onto discs. Blue-laser DVDs promise sharper picture quality suitable for display on advanced flat-screen high-definition TVs and computer monitors. Previously, they were too expensive and unreliable to go in mass-market electronics, but a recent breakthrough in the materials that make up blue-laser diodes (the light-emitting component) has made them commercially viable...
...movie stars who entrance a new generation. Our young hero, Mao Dabing, meets his beloved, Ling Ling, in a novel fashion: she whacks him on the skull with a brick. When he recovers enough to scold her, she refuses to speak, simply handing him the key to her flat. In it he finds a private screening room, with posters and reels of ancient movies starring the doomed Shanghainese diva Zhou Xuan...
...that doesn't mean the rest of the staff at CBS News is happy. "We're getting whacked. And it's not fun," says the CBS News producer, who blames CBS executives, not Rather. "CBS seems to be caught flat-footed. They were slow to respond." Heyward says it's too soon to say if anything should have been done differently. But he concedes that in the current maelstrom of media, "very quickly, in this case almost instantly, you can find yourself in a debate that is raging on so many levels that it is difficult to keep track...
...Lloyd Webber to deliver low-key satisfactions. Big sweeping melodies are what he does best, and here the strain of his self- imposed leash suffocates the drama. It doesn't help that the lyrics, by David Zippel, from the adaptation of the book by Charlotte Jones, are mostly flat when they should seep with accumulating terror. The script is also far less subtle than the original. Collins' Fosco is a fascinating creation - obese, aging and yet with a mind of such deviousness that Marian is spellbound. "He looks," she writes in her diary, "like a man who could tame anything...
...neck. "I was in constant physical pain for about three years. It's annoying and very tiring and it makes you very bad-tempered," and, she says, may explain her reputation as a prickly interview. What broke her suicidal spell that day was the sound from a neighboring flat of a man singing a twee Scottish song, Mhairi's Wedding. The prospect of jumping out of a window to the lyrics, "Step we gaily, on we go ?" was more than her resolve could bear. It's a classic Kennedy moment, the kind of divine comedic intervention that lights...