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...question that 3-D has an appeal to an industry that, though the box office has been robust in these recession days, is facing a slump in DVD sales and the prospect of hard times. Monsters vs Aliens, which opened Friday, is bound to be the weekend's big picture. Cameron's 3-D Avatar, his first feature film since Titanic in 1997, is the gotta-see event of 2009; and any film in the process by Spielberg, Jackson, Robert Zemeckis or Robert Rodriguez should be exciting, if only because the directors will be juiced playing with this marvelous...
...Here's Why Not Not since the Bwana Devil days has the industry made such a concerted push for 3-D as a standard movie-watching process. The big question remains: Can the format overcome its carny tincture and become as universally accepted as wide-screen has? The eternal kid in this critic thinks that'd be pretty darn cool; but the Luddite in me has his doubts. Here are three reasons for informed skepticism...
...cost per quality-adjusted life year, you are basically deciding how much a year of life is worth? Yes. The most controversial area is where you place the dividing line between what is cost-effective and what is cost-ineffective. That is the "How much is life worth?" question. And there is no real empirical research to guide you. We have looked at what other government departments do. Our Department of Transport, for instance, has a cost-per-life-saved threshold for new road schemes of about 1.5 million GBP per life, or around 30,000 GBP per life year...
...Indeed, apart from a few loyal supporters, most of Taiwan remains unconvinced of their former leader's innocence. Civil law expert Chuang Shui-ming says that circumstances surrounding the embezzlement charges make it difficult to believe that the funds in question were only donations. And since several people involved have already admitted to their role in the scandal, Chuang says, "It's hardly possible that the Chen family would be found innocent...
...Which raises the question, one that trade economists have to answer every 10 years or so: If protectionism is so ruinous, why does everyone reach for it in tough times? To answer that, you have to go back to why trade is good for you. The idea that an exchange of what you have for what I have makes both of us better off must be as old as the first moment anyone swapped cowrie shells for some cooked fish. Organized trade is ancient: silk did not get to Rome because the Romans figured out sericulture; someone imported it from...