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...titles aren't mentioned. Other oldies may have several editions, of varying visual quality and with great extras or none. Netflix usually carries only one edition. To find out which one, you must go to a site like Amazon.com, find the item with the same box picture and read up on the editorial and customer reviews there. (In gratitude, you may end up buying from Amazon instead of renting from Netflix.) A lot of this trouble would be saved if Netflix were to list the distributor. I'll take it from there...
...Perk up your algorithms. The success of any online retail service depends in part on steering customers to products similar to the ones they've bought - guided browsing, so to speak. How does a company read your mind? Through computer algorithms, which sift through the universe of possibilities to determine that B, C and D would attract the interest of people who bought A. Amazon.com's algorithms result in some astute suggestions; Netflix's suck. If, on the search line, you type in the documentary Joe Louis: For All Time, you'll be directed to the French omnibus film Paris...
Spread the Word I was interested to read Vivienne Walt's article, "Cutting Off a Continent?" [July 13]. While I appreciate the philanthropy of the world's richest countries, I disagree with their style of giving. The problem is education. Why are the great nations in the West industrialized and we are not? Teach us how to mine our resources and how to design and construct facilities for the mining, and then Africa will catch up. That's the best way to aid us. Otherwise, it feels as though you are deliberately withholding the true source of development. Alexander Ezeh...
...Martin Fleischmann must be felicitated by mankind for their attempt to create cold fusion - to reproduce the energy of the Sun. They may have been unsuccessful and eventually faded into obscurity, but their contribution in the field of cold fusion will always enlighten researchers. It is encouraging to read that some dedicated researchers are busy in the field despite the so-called evidence, to date, that their efforts are just a beautiful idea. Mankind must pray for their success. Balram Mishra, Ghaziabad, India...
...differed over whether to pardon Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter Libby. But the divide reveals different conceptions of what is the highest value in a democracy. As I read about the Vice President's strongly held views, I couldn't help thinking of Barry Goldwater's famous line that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." President Bush, in contrast, comes across as more rule-based, more literal, more risk-averse. You can decide for yourself, but there's no disagreement that this story offers a first draft of history about the final days...