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Bored with the cold, silver minimalism of today's TVs? Taiwanese TV maker Hannspree offers models designed to appeal "on an emotional level." The 100 or so LCD sets, priced from $450 to $1,400, come in three lines. The Style range, an eclectic collection of TVs in such shapes as cellos, flowers and pearl oysters, are clad in wood, rubber or bright plastic...
...exhibits are educational. Visitors are able to view specimens rarely seen outside of textbook illustrations?such as Hunter's collection of babies, from nine-week-old embryos to fetuses stillborn at nine months. The museum is also testament to the massive medical advances of the past 300 years. The Silver and Steel Gallery juxtaposes clunky antique surgical tools with the sleek instruments used in operating theaters today. Be grateful that the 18th century skull-trepanning brace-and-bit and the brutal mid-19th century "tumor snare" are safely relegated to a blood-spattered past. tel: (44-20) 7869 6560; www.rcseng.ac.uk...
...bombs that are found. "This is a pro team of terrorists we're facing in Iraq, and we're working every day to beat them," says Lieut. Colonel Ernest Benner, a former operations chief of the task force, whose budget this year totals $1.4 billion. "But there are no silver bullets...
...want antibiotics even when they don't need them, and then they get angry at the doctors when they try to explain why the drugs won't help," says Dr. Tong Zhaohui, vice director of the respiratory department at Beijing's Chaoyang Hospital. To many Chinese patients, antibiotics are silver bullets: a cure for everything from skin infections to life-threatening lung ailments; and if a little is good, then more must be better?especially if you can get dosed directly through an intravenous line. "They say, 'I want an IV,' and they'll fight with you when you refuse...
...perceptions, if not mountains. Innovatively shot from the perspective of an 11-year-old Samoan boy called Tino, as he struggles to bring up his five siblings on a housing estate while his parents are busy making money and more babies, O Tamaiti (The Children) took out the coveted Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a first for a Pacific Islander director. Hinting at domestic violence, the film offered a strikingly dark view of Samoan life. "She wants to undo that happy haven idea of the Pacific," says Suhanya Raffel, head of Asian, Pacific and International...