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...upfronts - the annual dog-and-pony shows in which the networks unveil their new fall shows for the ad executives they hope will buy commercials - the glitziest network stars and the mightiest executives all become humble together, bowing and scraping before the people who make their billion-dollar business possible...
...Monday's NBC upfront, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, you could see the stars of "Will and Grace" trotted onstage like so many singing bar-mitzvah dancers, performing a "rock opera" that twitted executives and sang the network's praises. At one point, the prerecorded music crapped out, leaving the four singing a parody of "Dancing Queen" a cappella - and let's just say it revealed that Debra Messing is, um, not a professional singer, a fact underscored when she sang a duet with costar Harry Connick Jr., who is. If Fox is smart, they'll score a tape...
...honest: one of the things that gives The Matrix and its spin-offs their appeal is that the characters look so damn stylish once they plug into the network. Keanu Reeves' fight scenes are the more compelling for his dramatically swirling coat, and with Carrie-Anne Moss's character Trinity looking as if she's been shrink-wrapped into her black cat suit, her punches have more pop. (If The Matrix is any guide, women in the future will need a weapons-grade workout regimen...
...pressing question at a time when China's entire rural health-care system is under threat from SARS and is failing after decades of government neglect. While residents of the mainland's wealthier cities enjoy decent medical care, the network of doctors, clinics and hospitals serving the rural poor are simply unavailable to huge swaths of the population. Preventable scourges like tuberculosis and hepatitis B ravage the countryside, infant mortality is creeping upward after decades in decline?and now, with millions of migrant workers leaving their jobs in cities and streaming back to the hinterlands to escape SARS, it seems...
...Qatar, home to the freewheeling Al Jazeera satellite television network as well as the forward headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, voters approved a new constitution last month that creates a parliament and enshrines the right of women to stand for election. In Bahrain, significant reforms including elections last year have eased sectarian conflict between ruling Sunni Muslims and the majority Shiites. Last September, Morocco held parliamentary elections widely regarded as the first free, fair, and transparent balloting in the country's history...