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...hundreds of Taliban escaped in a daring jailbreak in Kandahar city; many joined an audacious attack on a strategic district just outside the former Taliban capital a few days later. Though Afghan National Army forces, backed by NATO troops, were able to contain the assault, it was a stark reminder that the Taliban, declared all but dead in 2002, remains resilient. A campaign of kidnappings, targeted assassinations of government officials and suicide bombings throughout the south has belied claims that stability and security...
...white refugee tents pitched in London's Trafalgar Square this week are meant to underscore a stark message: more people than ever before are being forced by war, famine or natural disaster to flee their homes. In the run-up to World Refugee Day on June 20, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said that the UNHCR last year cared for 25.1 million refugees and internally displaced people. That is the highest level of need ever recorded in the agency's 57-year history - 10% more than in 2006 - and the upward trend is bound to continue...
...made artful alliances with directors of equally robust creativity: Tim Burton, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron (with whom he was working on next year's Avatar). Winston's last handmade triumph was the metal suit that industrialist Tony Stark forges in Iron Man. The hard work and ingenuity Stark lavishes on his titanium tuxedo were worthy of Stan the Man himself...
...haven't seen anything that so cleverly explores the capacity gay men have for fooling themselves when they want to unwind with sex or substances. The story follows Josh, a 26-year-old gay man who gets drunk a lot, sleeps around, and then faces the stark fear that he is HIV-positive. I won't give away the ending, but it's not that important. The key parts of the movies are those that remind us that even in the antiretroviral era, getting HIV is an enormous medical and psychological burden. "The medications aren't as easy...
...death he was working on Cameron's Avatar.) His finest achievements in his last decade, as he tried battling cancer to a draw, were the robot Teddy in A.I.-another melancholy mandroid in the Scissorhands style-and, just this year, the suit that Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark fashions in Iron Man. Stark's basement laboratory might have been Winston's workshop; the dedication and ingenuity Stark lavished on his jet-propelled armor were worthy of Stan the Man himself...