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...With hundreds of midnight screenings selling out in the month since they were first available for Internet pre-sale, theaters across the country scrambled to set up more red-eye showings of The Dark Knight. As of 3 p.m. Thursday, tickets were still available for the 6:05 a.m. screening in Lincolnshire, Ill. The 6 a.m. show at the Mall of Georgia in Buford? No luck...
...While red-eye screenings, especially midnight showings, have been on the rise since the release of the first Star Wars prequel in 1999, lines around the block for hours beforehand - the tradition that gave birth to the idea of "blockbuster" films - have become something of an anachronism. What was a necessity in the days before you could buy tickets on the Web has now become a matter of choice: lightsaber-wielding guys and Harry Potter-bespectacled kids happily line up to commune before a film. "In the '80s, if you wanted to go see a movie on a Friday night...
Published in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, the findings center around one gene variation that blocks a receptor from being expressed on the surface of red blood cells. Scientists had previously studied this genetic variant - found almost exclusively in Africans and their descendants - because it also conferred protection against an early form of malaria. (The malaria parasite needed the receptor to infect blood cells; without the receptor, the parasite starved and died.) More than 90% of sub-Saharan Africans lack the red-blood-cell receptor, along with two-thirds of African-Americans. But the variant that once saved its carriers...
...Obviously, the visiting VIPs can't shake off their military security and go roaming in the Red Zone - that would be taking an absurd risk. Nor is there much point to the military's high-security walkabouts; remember John McCain's farcical visit to a Baghdad marketplace last year? In light of the security constraints, the only way to get a real sense of life outside the Green Zone is to meet with ordinary Iraqis - the people outside the protected bubble, who live the consequences of U.S. policy...
...First, he should invite a group of Baghdad journalists - mostly Iraqis, but also a few Westerners who've been in Iraq for several years - for a chat. This would not be a press conference; Obama would be asking all the questions. The majority of journalists live in the Red Zone and see much more of Iraqi life than anybody in the Iraqi government or the U.S. embassy. Iraqi journalists don't need to "embed" with U.S. troops in order to get to dangerous districts like Sadr City or Amariyah - they live in those neighborhoods, and they could tell Obama...