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...Hanoi doesn't see Chanh in quite the same light. The government accuses him of masterminding a failed 1999 plot to blow up Vietnamese monuments and of ordering the 2001 bombing of its embassy in Phnom Penh, as well as other attempted attacks both in Cambodia and Thailand. In a 2001 interview with TIME, Chanh boasted of his involvement in the 1999 plot; he added that his operatives in Vietnam were planning more bombings to destabilize the government and that he "control[led] the codes" for the explosives. The Vietnamese government has declined to say whether it is seeking Chanh...
...catalyst for her death in the play)—is projected onto a screen as well as onto what look like two huge girders criss-crossing the stage. The latter foreground the images, making them almost another character. Because the stage is mostly open, the play uses light to delineate it—portraying shifts between dreaming and waking, or Earth and Hades, by subtle shifts in the quality of the light. At times, it is less subtle: when lighting designer Christopher Akerlind puts the main characters in squares of light across the stage from each other, the separation...
...Then, in a stunning historical turnaround, U.S. President Richard Nixon visited China, spurring what Arkush and Lee describe as a new period of "rediscovery and respect." By the beginning of China's reform period in 1978, America was once again viewed in a largely positive light by the average Chinese. "The U.S. represented the good life," says Joseph Cheng, head of the Contemporary China Research Project at City University of Hong Kong. "It also represented, in the eyes of university students, the peak of scientific and technological progress...
...company's headquarters: a billboard that changes ads depending on the gender of the person standing in front of it. Davies says the demo gets it right 95% of the time. The billboard as a medium is changing rapidly too, as outdoor agencies transform static boards into digital light-emitting-diode (led) or liquid-crystal-display (lcd) screens that flash new images every few seconds. The dynamic screens allow marketers to fine-tune their messages, depending on the time of day. Lamar Advertising, based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has converted 75 vinyl highway boards into digital led displays...
...bottle, and some things go viral that shouldn't. One notorious surveillance video, still at large online, shows a suspect in a San Bernardino County, Calif., police station shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Another video shows a chubby kid waving a golf-ball retriever like a light saber. The kid, Ghyslain Raza, was 15 at the time. Three of his classmates found the footage and put it online, and it became an instant Internet classic. Soon strangers started making fun of Raza on the street. The San Francisco Giants put the video on their Jumbotron. Raza...