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...There are many would-be pilgrims like Pattie, and their well-meaning but inaccurate vision of China's most troubled province is the target of Patrick French's new book, Tibet, Tibet: a Personal History of a Lost Land (HarperCollins; 333 pages). Every year, hundreds of spirituality hunters?"flakes and fantasists," he writes, "running alongside dedicated altruists"?visit Dharamsala, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based, and try earnestly to help the cause. Some of the more famous acolytes, such as actor Richard Gere, successfully raise the issue in any public forum they can. Others go local, offering free...
...Marc Bell's "Shrimpy and Paul and Friends" is one of narrative art's greatest pleasures. The success of Marvel and DC's superhero franchises owe much to this transcendental escape. But because "Shrimpy and Paul" comes from the mind of a singular artist, it has a more singular vision. Goofy and delightfully baffling, you finish the book like you would come out of a supreme funhouse: dizzy, transcended and collapsed with laughter...
...began to appear. She had a rare form of progressive aphasia that would sap her language skills and force her to retire from teaching at 52. But even as she was losing the ability to make lesson plans, grade homework or remember the names of her students, her artistic vision seemed to be expanding (see right). "Her painting became wilder and freer and more original as her language declined," says Dr. Bruce Miller, a neurologist at the University of California at San Francisco, who is the lead author of a report on Chang's case in the current issue...
...describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard of his own pride). The taut Program is set in a simulacrum of feudal Japan; Detective Story somehow turns the Wachowskis' vision into film noir, complete with fog, fedoras?and Trinity in (what else?) tight, black leather...
...some 6,500 people a day, most of them women and children. It should have been the perfect topic for French President Jacques Chirac. As the host of this year's G-8, he invited leaders from the developing world to attend part of the summit, emphasizing his multipolar vision of the world. It was Chirac, two years ago at the violence-marred G-8 meeting in Genoa, who was among the most forceful instigators of the Global Fund to Fight aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. For months he has been saying that a key objective of the Evian summit would...