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Calling the shots on her first feature, the Canadian actress from The Sweet Hereafter and Go tackles an unlikely project for a 28-year-old: Alice Munro's short story about a long-married couple (Julie Christie, above left, and Gordon Pinsent) coping with an Alzheimer's diagnosis...
...many traditional animators lament the decline of hand-drawn animation with each computer-generated box office hit, the gap between classic and cutting edge has never been wider. But by picking up a new technology, Sert Practitioner in the Arts at the Carpenter Center Munro Ferguson uses elements of each medium to put the artist back in animation. Using a device known as SANDDE (Stereoscopic Animation Drawing Device), Ferguson is able to create three-dimensional “hand-drawn” images in real time. Developed by cousin and partner Paul Kroiter, the technology allows animators to do what...
...Chinese pay in blood for their country's economic success. The official death toll fell some 20% last year, but as with many government statistics in China, the figures aren't sparking celebrations, even among safety officials. In fact, many industry observers believe that accidents are heavily underreported. Robin Munro, a human-rights activist at the Hong Kong--based China Labor Bulletin, working from an unofficial estimate given by a senior work-safety bureaucrat, thinks as many as 20,000 miners die in accidents each year. And that count doesn't include tens of thousands more of the country...
...loincloths. After they fill their quota, the miners have to turn and crawl hundreds of yards, pulling a basketful of coal twice their body weight. The only illumination comes from candles in small lamps attached to the miners' heads--but Chinese mines are particularly prone to gas explosions, says Munro, making naked flames extremely dangerous...
DIED. Evelyn Munro, 92, activist and influential member of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, one of the first racially integrated unions, which fought for the rights of sharecroppers; in Laguna Beach, Calif. As the supervisor of the union's Memphis headquarters and later its education director, Munro attended risky meetings with racist plantation owners and police, edited a newspaper and mentored other women activists...