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Nintendo's new game controller is quite intriguing. As a nongamer, I quickly saw beyond its recreational use to its potential in other areas. Could the movement and motion described as part of the gaming experience be incorporated into a program of rehabilitation therapy for people recovering from illness or injury? If Nintendo is looking for new markets, perhaps its engineers and developers should meet with some physical-therapy experts and explore the possibilities...
...discover that she is buried up to her neck on the beach. Cut to the image of a pretty, sad-eyed young woman who's nearly run over by a bus. Then to shots of a girls' volleyball game, their grace and strength italicized by being filmed in slow motion. All this to Antony and the Johnsons' "My Lady Story," a dreamy-sounding, gentle massage of a ballad with scalpel-sharp lyrics ("My lady's story / Is one of annihilation... / I'm a hole in love / I'm a bride on fire / I am twisted / Into a starve of wire...
...Three innocent actions - a gift, a restorative vacation, a trip to a wedding - turn dreadfully wrong, not because of the venality of the people who put them in motion but because of the caprices of destiny. The film makes two unarguable points: that, wherever we live, whatever our status, all of us on earth are interdependent; and that, whatever care we take to control things, our lives are ruled by chance...
...rounded the board, landing on GO and collecting $200, he was grim-faced and stoic as always - but slow-motion replays revealed a single tear coursing down his weary face. Whether it was due to the ecstasy or loneliness of being alone at the top, it was a rare moment of vulnerability, and one not likely to be repeated. When he hits 715, don't expect him to turn on the waterworks...
...chance that when I land I'll have the sniffles or something worse. When I started looking into the health risks of air travel, I discovered that a lot of people--as many as 70% of travelers--are just like me. They disembark complaining of everything from earaches and motion sickness to viral infections and dehydration made more severe by the dry air that circulates in airplane cabins...