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Stallone is back, after a three year absence and the box office failure of his millennial foray, Get Carter. But while Driven may not be the comeback vehicle that will thrust him into the spotlight once again, it’s still one high-performance beauty that roars from start to finish with the throttle wide open. Solid acting turns and some breathtakingly edge-of-your-seat car races make getting there just as much fun as crossing the finish line...
...Kabila has little time for trips to the countryside these days. Since the assassination of his father three months ago thrust him into the presidency, he has toured the world - the U. S., France, Germany and the former colonial power Belgium - to ask for help in rebuilding his shattered country and to promise to abide by a peace deal to end the 33-month war there. He fired the ministers he inherited from his father, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, and promises to install a cabinet that "will work for Congo." Says a senior Western diplomat in the capital...
Scramjet is short for supersonic combustion ramjet. It uses the rush of air at high speed to ignite fuel and produce thrust, rather than relying on compressed air from a jet engine's fan blades. As well as being capable of hypersonic speeds (greater than Mach 4), scramjets get their oxygen from the air rather than tanks (as rockets do), reducing cost and freeing up space for cargo or passengers. They are also currently environmentally friendly: all three models under test run on pollution-free hydrogen...
...great deal of huffing and puffing, the dark side of Hollywood's dream factory. The play's real triumph, though, is the showcase it provides for the breathtaking virtuosity of Campion and Hill. They slide in and out of some 15 characters so deftly (a stoop here, a thrust-out chest there) and with such mutual precision that you feel you're watching not 15 people onstage, or even two, but one actor with two interlocking, constantly morphing sets of body parts...
Morrison discussed the role of the "black author" which many have thrust upon her. She spoke of one television interview before which she asked the interviewer if they could discuss issues outside of race...