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Despite a lot of similarities, crossbreeding it with pop is risky: the rottweiler is as likely to eat the fluffy little poodle as to share genetic material. Even then, the hybrid is usually brainless and sterile: see Blink...
...This World is a road movie?a Silk Road movie. It is also a strange hybrid of documentary and fiction. Torabi is an actual Afghan ?migr?; he and Enayatullah more or less play themselves on their westward adventure. Director Michael Winterbottom (Jude, Welcome to Sarajevo) went along for the ride, often improvising dialogue with people the boys met. At times the danger seems real: rifle fire at a Turkish border, captured on infrared film, comes perilously close to the two boys?and the crew. Did the film put the lads at risk? This is an expos? that occasionally smacks...
...Take, for example, Seynabou Ba, 35, who was born in Senegal and moved with her diplomat father to a different country every few years, including the U.S. and Russia. "I'm very different from women in Senegal but also very different from European women," she says. Her hybrid identity didn't always sit easy, and was something she only began to resolve when she was in her 20s. Today, it's an advantage. "I think that's why it's so easy for me to move from one country to the next. On the positive side, I'm very adaptable...
Unexpectedly, the couple must decide on a name quickly, and settle on Gogol, the surname of Nikolai Gogol, a Russian author whose work Ashoke is convinced saved his own life years earlier. Gogol Ganguli is born into a world of multicultural sensibilities, his name an indication of his own hybrid existence...
Toyota introduced the Prius in the U.S. in 2000, and Honda's Civic hybrid came out last year. Both cars save gas by drawing power from an electric motor that automatically recharges as you drive--no plugging in required. But the completely redesigned 2004 Prius is the first eco-friendly vehicle that not only saves money at the pump but also serves as a decent-size family car with a little oomph. Best of all, it sells for the same price as the original Prius...