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Your story seemed to imply that Hollywood's reluctance to accept high-definition video as the standard for image capture is due to nostalgia or a vague notion that film just feels more organic. No digital camera has yet achieved the dynamic range of today's film stocks, but that will change. Digital imaging technology will surpass film quality, and that's when moviemakers will start shooting their films digitally...
...double standard also exists within the criminal-justice system. San Diego elementary-school teacher Thad Jesperson was sentenced to 15 years to life last year for molesting four girls over two academic years. Also in 2005, a South Carolina judge gave Mark Vail, a former church schoolteacher and coach, 10 years for having sex with a student, then 12. Female perpetrators, by contrast, tend to get brief sentences and probation, as in Lafave's case and Letourneau's first...
...study being published in Thursday?s New England Journal of Medicine provides disappointing news on the avian flu front. The good news is that the study of 451 healthy adults shows that a vaccine manufactured by Sanofi Aventis using current standard techniques is safe. The bad news is that the inoculation will most likely be effective in humans only at the highest doses. Furthermore, the results show that the vaccine - as it is currently constituted - would take two and perhaps three injections to achieve good protection. That is a problem, since the U.S.?s already modest stockpile of material...
...defense will start arguing its case on Monday, but Skilling's attorney Daniel Petrocelli said the former CEO will not take the stand for at least a week. Petrocelli will probably begin by laying the groundwork for a defense that claims the executives were merely using standard business practices employed by other companies, says Houston attorney and former federal prosecutor Michael Wynne. Most likely, he says, the two executives will argue that they were just trying to save the company and that if Enron had survived, what investors hadn't known wouldn't have hurt them. "That, perhaps...
...lost. As is standard for destination clubs, Distinctive Retreats, based in Westport, Conn., refunded most of Hariri's money (80% is typical) when he resigned. Since then, "we have worked out the kinks," says Rob McGrath, CEO of Tanner & Haley Resorts, owner of the club, which has begun leasing properties to meet demand in popular destinations like Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and Kiawah Island...