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...Mike Dickson of Columbus, Ga., choosing a medical plan for his family was a lot easier. Mike and his wife Jennifer, who worked for a financial-services company, had what he calls a "top-notch benefits department," with experts to help answer questions. Even so, Mike and Jennifer had to decide which features of the different plans they cared most about. They chose an HMO because of its comprehensive basic benefits and its maternity coverage...
Global warming moved another notch up the worry scale last week when the National Academy of Sciences reported that human pollution might not just be causing a gradual rise in the earth's temperature but could also lead to "large, abrupt, and unwelcome" climate change. So it was a particularly good week for DaimlerChrysler to introduce a new fuel-efficient minivan called the Natrium. It runs on a common compound called sodium borohydride. A chemical reaction inside the engine produces hydrogen to power the car's fuel cell, leaving behind not carbon dioxide (the primary culprit in global warming...
...Mondays. In A Cook's Tour he takes even less advisable gastroenterological risks as he searches the globe for exotic foods. In one episode of the show, Bourdain toasts the Bam!-meister with a glass of cobra blood: "Hey, Emeril, why don't you kick this up a notch?" But Eileen Opatut, senior V.P. of programming for the Food Network, doesn't worry about Bourdain's slagging her channel. "That has to do with a certain machismo that many people in the world of food have," she says. "I see Tony as being more akin to the Emerils and Bobbys...
...reminiscent of another of this year's inspired works, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie from Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks and visual kink and find the most unlikely "feel good factor." Dogs' bark is more hysterical and a notch or two rougher than Amelie. Part Hitchcock's Rear Window, part Monty Python's Parrot Sketch, Bong's Dogs may be this year's most inventive Asian film...
Still, Dido and Aeneas easily overcomes the few odd choices of its production team and fills the Fogg Courtyard with a top-notch production executed with talent and flair...