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...Friday, a day after Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, the movie filled just 25% of the seats for its debut in theaters across India, the country of its setting. Buoyed by the hype the movie has generated in the U.S. - along with its Oscar nods and four Golden Globe awards, Slumdog on Sunday won the "best cast" award from the Screen Actors Guild - Fox Searchlight released 351 prints of the film across India last weekend. But while Indian critics have largely embraced the movie, audiences are not flocking to the film. Theaters showing the movie averaged...
...Ronald Crystal, chairman of the department of genetic medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, knows those stakes all too well. He is a veteran of the last revolution in medical technology, gene therapy, which, after some hyped expectations in the 1990s, fell into disfavor after some unsuccessful trials. Crystal is cautiously optimistic about the potential for this trial to open the door to future stem-cell therapies. "I think this is a very positive start, but the expectations and hype I see around stem-cell therapies are the same that I saw around gene therapy. We just...
Read "Stem Cells: The Hope and the Hype...
...hear F.D.R.'s speech. You could walk down the streets of the city and hear F.D.R.'s voice. It was like being among the largest listening audience assembled in the history of the earth - at least at that time. Judging from the size of the crowds and the hype and buzz he has generated, Obama has reached new heights. Is Obama another F.D.R., who will lead us out of this depression? Who will lead us into a political promised land? He sure feels like it. Melvin H. Kirschner, Granada Hills, Calif...
...explore the ironies further, I turned to Andrea Tesseri, an Italian astrophysicist and longtime fan of Isola dei Famosi. Tesseri doesn't buy the hype. "So we aren't so intolerant. We like to get along. But comparing [Luxuria's victory] to Obama is depressing," Tesseri told me. "Being in the [political?] minority, all we are left with is this...