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...Vice President. Khartoum announced that fresh talks with rebels in the western Darfur region would start within weeks. Making Nice NORTH KOREA Pyongyang indicated it was willing to resume talks on its nuclear program, following a four-day visit by a U.S. congressional delegation. Weathering Disaster UNITED STATES Rain- and snowstorms killed 28 people in California and caused an estimated $100 million in damage in the southern part of the state. Ten of the victims died when a mudslide buried part of the beachside town of La Conchita. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE... Smell the Bouquet As part of a campaign...
...there are some things even the most modern technology can't surmount. "What is he saying?" one man asks. Satellite, whose grasp of English stretches to "Hello," stares intently at the screen, as if trying to find just the right words. "He says it's going to rain," the boy replies. Such wry scenes come thick and fast in the first half of Turtles Can Fly, the third feature from Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, which started its Europe-wide release in Britain last week. It's his funniest film yet, which is surprising, given that it is populated by children...
...secret electronic-listening post. Sparsely populated and almost impossible to reach in normal times, the islands are home to some of the world's last Stone Age tribes--five groups, with populations of 30 to 250, of Pygmy Africans and Mongol hunter-gatherers who stalk wild pig in the rain forest with bows and arrows. They were believed to have been wiped out by the tsunami, until a relief helicopter attempting to assess the damage was fired on by tribesmen shooting poison arrows...
...blame them, what with all the terrible people they have there. Try to get into a press box with the wrong type of credentials—it’s no use. They’ll turn you away and make you sit in the cold and rain even though all you’re wearing is a long sleeve t-shirt and three other writers from your newspaper are inside and they all plead with them to let you in. But I digress?...
...M.I.T., Hoffman was introduced to chaos theory. A chaotic system like weather appears to behave randomly but is actually governed by rules. It is also influenced by seemingly trivial tweaks to the system--hence the old romantic notion that a flap of a butterfly's wings in the rain forest of Brazil might give rise to a storm off the coast of Iceland. Perhaps, thought Hoffman, chaos and sensitivity, which make weather so difficult to predict, could be harnessed to purposely change...