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...Nance, 34, starts work this week in San Francisco as a nurse. She's planning a long-delayed visit to the dentist and the purchase of a new set of tires. But with $40,000 in student loans, "I'm not going to go out and buy a flat-screen TV," she says. Wal-Mart and Target both reported declines in sales growth in June. A drop in consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the economy, could slow the recovery. "We're watching that very carefully," says Duncan Meldrum, president of the National Association for Business Economics...
...Athens Olympics may be almost as challenging for visitors as it is for athletes. But there are other, subtler omens as well. Take the new 8,000-seat boxing venue in the Athens neighborhood of Peristeri. With a slick blue-and-red ring capped by a colossal TV screen and a snazzy digital scoreboard, it's a dazzling place to watch a fight. But step outside the main hall and the polished illusion falls apart: there are few signs telling people how to get where they're going, a lack of parking spaces and mismatched carpets. Across town, the historic...
Thompson and former HSPH researcher Fumie Yokota compared MPAA ratings and rating reasons for 1,906 films released between Jan. 1, 1992 and Dec. 31, 2003 with information about movie content from two independent resources, Kids-in-Mind and Screen...
Valenti pointed to the success of the 1969 X-rated film Midnight Cowboy, which won the Academy Award for best picture, as evidence that perceptions about how much violence and sex should be shown on screen are always changing...
...Doom 3 is scary: A couple of times - embarrassing but true - I physically jerked my head back from the screen. But there's other good stuff in there, too: The id team has paid a lot more attention to storytelling and voice-acting in Doom 3 than they have in past games. This isn't just a run-and-gun scenario; there's actual plot points and stuff. There's a more cinematic sensibility at work too - watch for some nice virtual camerawork in the cut scenes. And of course, the creature design has that signature sick flair that...