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Shame on the citizens of Chicago and its suburbs for the way they coped with the heat wave and its resulting deaths [CITIES, July 31]. Wake up, Chicago! Why didn't residents sitting in their air-conditioned homes help their neighbors? Maybe this is not just Chicago's problem. Would this, could this occur in my city? Let's all learn from the tragedy and consider who in our neighborhoods would benefit from some basic human compassion during a time of need. PAULA WELLS-HUTCHISON Elko, Nevada...
...perilous as outer space. Unaided, humans can't dive much more than 10 ft. down--less than one three-thousandth of the way to the very bottom--before increasing pressure starts to build up painfully on the inner ear, sinuses and lungs. Frigid subsurface water rapidly sucks away body heat. And even the most leathery of lungs can't hold a breath for more than two or three minutes...
...newly formed--provided striking evidence that the theory is correct. But an even more dramatic confirmation came from the Pacific, where black clouds of superheated, mineral-rich water were discovered spewing from chimney-like mounds on the sea bottom--evidence that the rocks below still carried tremendous heat from their relatively recent formation...
Most hot political issues, in fact, are left to filmmakers inside China. Farewell My Concubine, Zhang's To Live, Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite, Gu Rong's Unwelcome Lady and Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun have boldly dramatized the fratricidal madness of the Cultural Revolution. The directors have paid for their bravery, finding their work censored or themselves unemployed. Gu submitted his film eight harrowing times before it was approved. Jiang tried distracting the on-the-set censor by casting him in Heat of the Sun. But he still had to fight for over...
Pamela Bailey Powers, the producer of the event and a participant in the workshop, said she modeled the second "Radical Heat" after the first reading that took place on almost exactly four years ago on August...