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...Lorca's relatives previously objected to the exhumation of his remains. "It's never mattered to us to know the exact location. We just wanted to have the place where he lies protected," says Laura García Lorca. "That's important for the memory of all the victims. Because of who he is, we think of him as a sort of guardian, ensuring the remains of all the others won't be disturbed or forgotten either." Earlier this month, the town of Alfácar granted that wish by declaring the site a cemetery. (Read "At Last, Spain Faces...
...Lorca family has thus far declined to participate in the laborious DNA testing that geneticist José Lorente and his team will conduct on some of the remains. "If the family doesn't give us tissue samples for us to establish the [family] DNA, those remains will never be identified," Lorente says. It's a fittingly incomplete end for an emblematic figure in a war whose ghosts have yet to be put to rest...
...Film Festival held every other fall, and in recent weeks state television has occasionally shown Disney films like Snow White, Cinderella and Robin Hood. But a wide selection of foreign films have always been available to the country's élites, having been smuggled in before the 1990s, though never at the rate that happens now. Kim Jong Il, the country's dictator, is said to own a library of more than 20,000 foreign and North Korean films. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...
...only 19 states participated in daylight saving. As the years passed, more states acquiesced to the Federal Government's daylight saving schedule - which was created for energy-saving purposes, with the idea that an extra hour of daylight in the winter would cause people to use less oil. Arizona never adopted the new time plan on the grounds that it was too hot out to "spring forward" an hour in the summer. Daylight hours don't vary much in Hawaii, and the tropical state has never needed the time plan...
...Myung, whose organization actively opposes the regime, exposing North Koreans to foreign ways of life is not just a matter of wasting a few hours on a Friday night. "The government can target the distributors, and they can be shot," Myung says, "but the government can never stop people from wanting to see the movies...