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...small to be left to the imagination; no time-consuming trick is spared. On a sound stage outside the city, actors wearing Ping-Pong balls all over their bodies run around in a circle of red-lit cameras. The cameras bounce signals off the balls and create a framework for the computer to replicate their bodies. This is called motion capture, and it tends to be used sparingly in video games to clone, say, the slam-dunk moves of an NBA player. In Fantasy, it's used for each one of the movie's estimated 1,500 shots in which...
...tycoon's third concern, hardly surprising, is Putin's attack on the oligarchs and the businesses they control. Fortunes may have been made in Russia in the early years by less than ethical means at a time when the legislative framework was weak, but attempting to redistribute property now by executive order, he says, would simply result in further abuses. He wants these issues settled exclusively by the courts, rather than by the Kremlin or the public prosecutor...
...finally they came, if not to a meeting of the minds, at least to a workable understanding--and a framework for this week's joint announcement. After more than a decade of dreaming, planning and heroic number crunching, both groups have deciphered essentially all the 3.1 billion biochemical "letters" of human DNA, the coded instructions for building and operating a fully functional human...
...What's the rush?" Baumamn said. "It seems to me an act of good faith for Harvard to support that. A moratorium sets the framework for the process...
Reading old wartime letters within the poetic framework of Douglas Brinkley's piece was a poignant reminder that a tale of separation has the power to draw us closer together. The bonds of sharing such human experience remain lasting memorials. STEVEN PLANK Oberlin, Ohio...