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...arch, retrofuturistic movie in which all the acting was done on an empty soundstage, then all the scenery added by computer; and her new film, Proof, about a woman whose life is almost the direct opposite of Paltrow's. She plays Catherine, whose years of caring for her mentally ill, math-genius father (Anthony Hopkins) have left her bitter, maybe nutso. After her father dies, she falls for a winsome former student of his (Jake Gyllenhaal) and gives him a brilliant mathematical proof that no one believes she has written...
Meanwhile, no one has given up on more tried-and-true scanning techniques. According to the IMV Medical Information Division of Des Plaines, Ill., doctors perform annually at least 11.5 million echocardiograms, which use sound waves to produce pictures of the internal structures of the heart, and more than 9 million nuclear perfusion scans, which use mildly radioactive tracer molecules to measure how well the cardiac muscle is nourished. Improvements in computer processing power and software have made these tests more reliable and more conclusive than ever before. Stress tests, which help doctors detect ischemia, or lack of blood flow...
...commissioners supported the action and the Texas Civil Rights Project has threatened a lawsuit, but on a 3-2 vote Meadows won support for a public hearing on the issue. The bad news for residents concerned about the return of Sheehan-who left the ranch to care for her ill mother-is that the public hearing will be held in about 30 days time, long after President Bush returns to the White House after his summer vacation...
...Another case related to the deaths of more than 500 British p.o.w.s on Ballale Island, near Bougainville. Almost 300 died when forced onto the airstrip during an Allied bombing raid; 150 more died from ill-treatment, and the rest were bayoneted and buried in mass graves. The case was dropped because the victims were not Australian; relatives were told the men had died when a prison ship carrying them was sunk. "We only found out in 1997 what really happened," says June Woods, 69, whose father Alfred Burgess was one of the victims. "The government should have held the Japanese...
...Sheikhs and Desert Love. Eerie, a contributor to 'Aqoul, a blog mostly about news from the Middle East, noting a significant increase in the number of romance novels featuring handsome desert nomads, provided a helpful graph documenting their rise. Yin Shui Si Yuan dismissed these romance novels as "incredibly ill-informed, orientalist, romantic fantasies involving oil sheikhs." Political Animal's Kevin Drum and Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch have found the subject an amusing distraction from the August doldrums...