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...reach the falling probe, they will use a 20-ft. catch pole with a latching hook on the end to snag the parafoil. The hook will then detach from the pole, although it will still be connected by a cable. At that point a pyrotechnic blast will fire a pin across the mouth of the hook, sealing it around the cable; finally, a winch will spool the cable out a bit, reducing the jolt on the helicopter. "It's a smooth transition in the mid-air retrieval," says Brian Johnson, the payload master aboard the chopper...
...recent media screening of Somersault, which opens in Australia on Sept. 16 ahead of a worldwide release, you could have heard a pin drop. In Shortland's beautifully atmospheric coming- of-age drama set in the New South Wales snowfields town of Jindabyne, emotions fluctuate as wildly as teenage hormones, but for audiences the most consistent is astonishment. Hushed tones have followed Somersault since it was invited to screen in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in May. "It was thrilling, yeah, it was cool," Tom Schutzinger, of Sydney band Decoder Ring, who composed the film's haunting score...
...Such generosity can't be displayed by East Timor's athletes, who arrived pin-less in an Olympic Village that considers these tchotchkes a major form of diplomatic exchange. But that matters little to the citizens of a nation that didn't formally exist until two years ago. In September 1999, hundreds of East Timorese civilians were killed and one-quarter of the population sent into temporary exile during a rampage by Indonesian anti-independence militias. When news of a massacre spread, Agueda Fatima Amaral, a marathoner who constitutes half of East Timor's Olympic contingent, gathered up a couple...
...these women, all that's at stake is the future of their sport. "They definitely love you if you win," says Miranda. "That's all part of the game." Miranda has won over one tough convert already. Her once reluctant dad will be cheering in Athens, watching his daughter pin down a dream...
...bring the firm out of bankruptcy as early as the beginning of next year. Big foreign banks are natural targets because they helped to arrange for about 80% of Parmalat's bank debt. In a confidential report for the Italian government seen by Time, Bondi and his team pin much of the blame for the company's collapse on "large-scale and ever more costly" financings arranged by banks, often through offshore tax havens. In other massive international bankruptcies, regulators and others have forced big settlements from enabling banks. After its bankruptcy, Enron sued its own lenders; that suit...