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...Africa, however, infection levels are at an all-time high. The disease is a particular concern in frontier areas with new agricultural and irrigation projects, including the Amazon, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa...
Based on the 1955 Graham Greene novel, Phillip Noyce's intimate epic dramatizes the mundane face of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Its release has been delayed, but Oscar-minded Miramax had better get it out by the end of the year. As an Englishman whose political scruples lead him to abet murder, Michael Caine gives a suave, smartly controlled turn that is guaranteed a nomination...
...flight in coach). Bus travelers can watch cable TV and use Internet-access ports at each seat. And there's an attendant on board who gladly makes hotel and dinner reservations. According to Bunce, ExecConnect will expand to the Northeast and Southeast within a month--and to other routes that a bus can traverse in 5 1/2 hr. or less...
...putting Indonesia?and particularly Megawati?in this bind is Abubakar Ba'asyir, the Muslim cleric who is allegedly the spiritual and political leader of JI. As TIME reported last week, the U.S. interrogation of Omar al-Faruq, a militant who has confessed to being al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian point man, revealed that he and Ba'asyir had planned to bomb American embassies and consulates in the region the week of the first anniversary of Sept. 11. Despite this and related disclosures that indict him as at least a suspect, Ba'asyir (who has denied these accusations) remains free, openly...
...other Hong Kong entry, The Eye, has been a huge hit throughout Southeast Asia?which proves only that the audience is desperate for Sixth Sense-style thrills, whether or not they make any other sense. A young woman (the fetching Angelica Lee), blind since childhood, has her sight restored with a pair of eyes from an unknown donor. Suddenly she sees ... dead people. Twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, who directed the spiffy actioner Bangkok Dangerous, settle this time for stock characterizations and flabby scare devices. The only thing that jolted audiences out of their seats was the sudden deep...