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Wolfgang Petersen, the German director who has won worldwide audiences for manly crises under the water (Das Boot), on its roiling surface (The Perfect Storm) and in the sky (Air Force One), wants to take The Iliad out of schoolroom memories. His notion is to vacuum off the cobwebs and make it a vivid adventure that will appeal equally to adults who have a yawning familiarity with the story and to children for whom Homer is only Bart's bald, dundering...
...another study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, German researchers found that eating dark chocolate lowered blood pressure in mildly hypertensive subjects. For two weeks, 13 volunteers were given daily doses of dark chocolate--about 480 calories' worth--or an equal amount of white chocolate, which has no flavonoids. In the dark-chocolate group, systolic blood pressure dropped five points, diastolic nearly two. White-chocolate eaters showed no significant improvements...
...year, and millions more are injured in weather- and equipment-related accidents. In the Baltic, though, there is another hazard - about 35,000 tons of chemical munitions sunk by the Russians near Bornholm and the Swedish island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late 1940s. More - sealed on German warships - was sunk by Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some of the weapons in the relatively shallow Baltic - blister agents (such as sulfur mustard), tear gas and other chemical irritants once...
...electricity comes from nuclear power. The government has provisionally approved the building of a fifth nuclear reactor (FIN5), with the capacity to produce up to 1,600 MW, at a cost of $2.5 billion. But even if Finland needs more nukes, why Russian technology? After all, the Franco-German Framatome ANP and General Electric are also bidding for the contract. To make its case, ASE has adopted an American-style lobbying and public-relations campaign, a rarity in Finland. It has established a company called Oivavoima Oy (Excellent Power), with offices on Pohjoisesplanadi, an elegant tree-lined boulevard in Helsinki...
...presented at an informal meeting of the Security Council on Friday. Both Washington and London remained upbeat about the resolution's chances of success, despite early opposition from France and Germany, which staunchly opposed the war on Iraq. After a bilateral meeting in Dresden, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said the proposal did not give the U.N. sufficient political authority in Iraq and did not foresee a speedy enough handover of power to Iraqis. But though Schröder publicly called the proposal not "dynamic or complete enough," White House sources tell TIME that...