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...late teens before he decided to study music. In Paris after the war he hooked up with two exceptional impresarios of French theater: Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar. For Vilar he wrote incidental music for modern readings of classical plays. In 1951, Georges Franju, a director of spare, uncompromising documentaries, hired Jarre to score his film essay on wounded veterans, the 1951 Hôtel des Invalides. In the next dozen years they would collaborate on two more shorts and five sepulchral features, including Head Against the Walls and Eyes Without a Face. Franju's images were so haunting...
Pimp My Ride. Want to ride in style to the airport, but have little cash to spare? Try Hitchsters.com, which sets up shared limo rides to the airport. Enter the airport you're headed to, the flight you're catching and the time you want to leave. The website will let you know if there are any other travelers who want to hitch to your wagon. You can also indicate whether you'd prefer male or female company. It beats trawling the produce aisle for mates...
...survive. Hussain al-Safi, director general of the NGO Directorate, sidestepped a question about why the government should have its fingers on an NGO's purse strings, saying he hadn't read the 12-page draft law in detail. "I've been waiting for the opportunity to have a spare minute to read it," he says, thumbing through a copy on his desk...
...reviving their economies? Or, is a coordination of efforts not important to the pace of a global recovery. If Germany refuses to make more than a modest effort to help its banks and major industries while the U.S. is going "all in" with every dime it can spare to help housing, banks, and jobs creation, does the imbalance between the scales of the efforts make a difference...
...only the cure were that easy. Any doctor will tell you the advantages of having lots of patient data on computers: it helps us avoid redundant tests, gather huge amounts of information for research, screen automatically for drug interactions - and spare others from having to decipher our illegible handwriting. I would be happy if every patient could give me a digital file of everything about him; it could really save time on first visits. But we must keep in mind that there will be a cost for computerizing patient records that could prove greater than the billions that would...