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...shopped it last summer. They stayed away from it because it was too hot, in what Hitchens would describe as "the less attractive sense of that word." That wouldn't mean much for standard religious bio-pics, which are usually financed by church organizations, shown in remote locations and unknown to the mass moviegoing public. But Gibson is one of the world's top stars, whose last 10 major-studio films (since Braveheart) have grossed a cumulative $1.27 billion at the North American box office and a similar amount abroad. Signs, his last movie as an actor, grossed nearly...
DIED. JULIUS SCHWARTZ, 88, an early promoter of the science-fiction genre, who went on to revive the American comic-book industry after World War II; in Mineola, N.Y. As a science-fiction literary agent in the 1940s, he sold an unknown Ray Bradbury's first stories. Later, as an editor at DC Comics, he revived such superheroes as the Flash and Green Lantern, and in the 1970s updated Superman, giving his alter ego, Clark Kent, a new job--as a TV reporter...
Graustein Professor of Mathematics Shing-Tung Yau remembers receiving a phone call years ago from an unknown researcher in England informing him that the three mathematical structures discussed in his recently published “Calabi Yau Manifolds” were all essentially the same structure. Greene was the researcher, and Yau first disregarded his claims but was later astonished to realize Greene was correct. Yau subsequently convinced Greene to work with him for the following two years. “In those days, it was more like he was teaching me than me leading the research...
...talks with the rebels, something Putin opposes). Shortly after it was published, a Chechen acquaintance proposed a secret meeting with rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov. Rybkin says he was told that Maskhadov would meet him somewhere in Ukraine, so Rybkin left for the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Once there, he says, unknown men took him to an apartment and offered him tea and a snack while he waited. Then, Rybkin claims, he fell unconscious - for four days. He woke up in a different apartment, where his captors showed what he called a "disgusting" video of him that had been shot while...
...routing table for the Internet has grown larger and larger and we reached a size-related bug,” Davis said. “What it really comes down to was a heretofore unknown, very complicated problem...