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...good-bug strategy was championed by doctors treating allergies and infectious diseases. The idea was to expose patients to small quantities of partly disabled microbes to jump-start their immune system. But cancer researchers have taken the approach one step further, turning microbes into tiny Trojan horses that can sneak into tumor cells and destroy them from within. "There is a good probability that microbe approaches will be part of the arsenal of the future," says Kenneth Kinzler, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins Hospital's Kimmel Cancer Center who is working with the clostridium bacterium. "We're betting...
...shape is typical of the Sasanians who ruled the area that is now Iran, and whose designs the Chinese appropriated for everything from tableware to clothing. But it probably comes from Bactria, in modern-day Afghanistan. And the figures on its surface seem to be characters in the Trojan War. Whoever cast the ewer seems to have been more concerned with style than mythological substance. But General Li probably didn't care. The foreignness of the design alone gave the jug its allure...
Directed by Ondrej Trojan...
Clearly, this fish-out-of-water romance is a well-worn and somewhat predictable formula, but director Ondrej Trojan and writer Kveta Legatova weave such a captivating and convincing story that it doesn’t matter. If anything, the unsurprising plotline serves to create a sense of comfort as the film delves deeper into the intricacies of life in a small Eastern European village during World War II; everyone knows everyone else and, if it weren’t for the very occasional appearance of Nazi soldiers—often accompanied by violence—it would feel...
Accordingly, Trojan takes his time, drawing the story out and eschewing the fast-paced action-oriented style of most Hollywood films, while still maintaining the audience’s undivided attention. There are extended moments in this film when the Germans seem far, far away and the bitterest and most dangerous of Eliska’s enemies seem to be limited to that shifty-eyed drunk who lives on the other side of the hill. Once directly confronted by the war, however, all of the villagers quickly come together and even the unlikeliest of heroes come to their neighbors?...