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...Titanic playbook and composed a central fictional love story. Two strapping pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), friends since boyhood, fall for a hot nurse (Kate Beckinsale). Ultimate sacrifices ensue. Authentic figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) and heroic black mess attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) appear in supporting roles, and the backdrop reaches for historical accuracy--at least until it gets in the way of the main story...
...outside, the patient's stomach is smeared in yellowy iodine and puffed out from the CO2 pumped in to provide some elbow room. Five "ports" are cut through his side, allowing surgeons to slip mechanical tools into his body. On the inside, it's an unrecognizable mess of viscera, shiny pink surfaces and gloopy fat. Across the room, lead surgeon Barry Gardiner sits at a console with his head pressed into a 3D viewfinder. His fingers, looped into what look like castanets, dart about just above his lap. But the action is taking place inside the patient, where metal robot...
...hundreds of lawsuits that seek damages totaling more than $590 million, and the company is bracing for a report on the tire failures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Moreover, Representative Billy Tauzin, a Louisiana Republican, plans to hold hearings this summer on the way "this whole mess started and why we didn't hear about it until people started dying...
...tough conditions, and that's what great companies do. For photonic components, we still like Corning. That's going to be a great fiber-optic franchise, particularly because they make a lot of money selling the actual fiber, and one of their chief competitors, Lucent Technologies, is really a mess right now. On the semiconductor side, we've long been fans of PMC-Sierra and Vitesse. On the software side, in addition to liking Veritas, we're also big fans of BEA Systems...
...embarrassments: the revelation that accused Russian spy Robert Hanssen operated inside the bureau for 15 years; and the discovery of thousands of pages of undisclosed documents in the case of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, which rescued the convict at the brink of execution, at least for now. Neither mess was Ashcroft's fault, of course, but he has to clean both...