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...what's attracting audiences these days," says Roy Lee, the Korean American who sold The Ring and Ju-on to Hollywood. It attracts producers too, since atmospherics cost less than computer legerdemain. But you don't have to be Japanese to scare people smartly. You need only a potent idea and $200,000. That was the budget for Open Water, based on the true story of an American couple who were left behind on Australia's Great Barrier Reef by a scuba boat...
Many were surprised that vitamin E did no better than a placebo in the Mayo experiment. Vitamin E is a potent antioxidant, and previous studies had shown that taking megadoses of the vitamin could keep Alzheimer's patients out of a nursing home a little longer. Perhaps what's called for is a mix of drugs and vitamins...
...blighted banlieues. A recent confidential report leaked by France's police intelligence unit estimates that more than 2 million French people now live in 300 of the most dire of these urban ghettos - cut off from mainstream society and beset by domestic violence and religious extremism. This potent mix of economic and social deprivation, combined with unfolding events - the Palestinian intifadeh, the Iraq war and perceived stigmatization of Muslims in the war on terror - has led some young people to channel their anger into outright anti-Semitism. "The perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks that have been caught have usually been...
...Harvard graduate-is the party's best long-term hope of presenting a unified front against the LDP. His reputation as a serious policy wonk-particularly on Japan's hot-button pension-reform issue-and his history as a committed consensus-builder, they say, have made him a potent contrast to Koizumi, whom voters have begun to think of as imperious and impulsive. "Okada is a leader for the times," says Etsushi Tanifuji, a political-science professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. "After 9/11, politics in some way had to be very speedy. But voters are realizing that speedy...
...almost no one condemns both movies. If you're a Fundamentalist red-stater, Gibson is a hero. If you're a leftist blue-stater, Moore is, in the words of the New York Times, "a credit to the Republic." The truth is that both movies are different but equally potent forms of cultural toxin--poisonous to debate, to reason and to civility. And the antidote is in shorter and shorter supply...