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...Dear Gus Van Sant...
...local strawberries and fine wines when we're not testing the films on view. Once again we'll be filing daily dispatches on the movies, press conferences, parties and other events of this, the 60th Cannes Film Festival. When the new works of the Coen brothers, Emir Kusturica, Gus Van Sant, Hou Hsiao-hsien and other world-class directors are shown, we'll report on them. When Brangelina comes calling, for their respective films (Ocean's Thirteen and A Mighty Heart), we'll be in the mob trying to ask them questions. If Michael Moore is arrested...
...will bring down the curtain on a successful double act. Despite the rancor engendered by their personal rivalry, Blair and Brown, the Lennon and McCartney of politics, had a creative chemistry. As Brown embarks on a solo career, Geldof finds a new, and apt, comparison, remarking: "Brown is the Van Morrison of politics - grumpy but brilliant...
...Chinese face the same problems as the U.S. officials - they simply can't inspect every single shipment, but they are on the right track," van Dijk says. China has signed on some key international monitoring rules, but the scale of trade makes oversight difficult...
...There also have been efforts to establish a turtle-farming industry in China - Popplewell has exported breeding stock from Texas - and a recent study co-authored by van Dijk found about 1000 turtle farms in China. But van Dijk says the farms cannot support the rising demand in a country where incomes are also rising. Wild turtles are still valued by consumers over farm-raised stock and Chinese turtle farmers prefer wild breeding stock. Turtles may be slow movers, but when they escape farms they can pose a breeding and disease threat to already diminished local species...