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...their own 70mm format. Some of our great moments: Patton, Oklahoma! in Todd-AO 70mm, Lawrence of Arabia, and of course 2001: A Space Odyssey. HAL 9000 notes in the film that he was born "in the computer lab in Urbana, Illinois." The restored Virginia Theater uses a vast, beautiful screen...
...sensitive government information, but usually only so far. Geither's brilliance has led him to change the perception of banks from being "too big to fail" into being "too big to be discussed in public." His most impressive statement at yesterday's Oversight Panel cross examination was that the "vast majority" of American banks are well-capitalized. He neglected to mention which financial firms are in trouble. It could be that two of the four largest banks in the US have too much trash on their balance sheets to make it through the year without large cash infusions. If anything...
...Croatian news site Evening Paper on Monday. Autonomy has become the central demand of the Bolivia's eastern lowlands, where the predominantly white and more affluent population is at sometimes violent odds with Morales' pro-indigenous agenda, and where the lion's share of the nation's vast natural resources are located. "He told me about his involvement in fights in the jungle," Brady wrote. "He was one of [many] guerrilla fighters there." (Is Evo Morales one of the world's most influential people? Vote for the TIME...
...heavy resistance from the Tigers who would literally be fighting a battle for survival. "This is the end of the Tamil Tigers," Hulugalle tells TIME. "They held these civilians by force for so long, but they cannot do that any longer." Just two years ago, the Tigers held vast swaths of land in the country's north, but have now been limited to a 20 sq km (7.7 sq mi) coastal zone surrounded by the military. A naval blockade to the east has also cut off possible escape routes. On Monday, the Sri Lankan government gave the Tigers 24 hours...
...which investigated online gambling as “a potential object of addictive behavior,” concluded that the availability of Internet gambling is not correlated to gambling addiction. “The very first thing we learned, which we didn’t expect, was that the vast majority, the overwhelming majority, of gamblers online gamble in a very moderate and mild way,” said HMS Associate Professor of Psychology Howard Shaffer in an interview with Gambling Online Magazine. Approximately 95 percent of players studied only bought a median of about $15.65 in chips...