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...Parasite Eve was first published in Japanese in 1995, and together with Koji Suzuki's Ring helped to launch a new wave of Japanese horror - both novels were made into movies. Director Hideo Nakata's adaptation of Ring enjoyed more domestic success than the Fuji TV-produced Parasite Eve, but Sena's story reached a broader audience outside Japan through a Sony PlayStation video-game adaptation that shifted the tale to New York City and ratcheted up the gore - most fantastically in the mass spontaneous combustion of an opera audience at Carnegie Hall. There are also two Japanese manga versions...
...apartheid era, political violence in South Africa was invariably seen in black and white. But in the wave of anti-immigrant carnage that swept the country in late May, all 62 of those killed were black. So were the tens of thousands who lost their homes. And the mobs that beat, raped, robbed and burned victims alive. The hatred and violence that has shaken a country that optimistically proclaims itself the Rainbow Nation was not about racism - it was a symptom of globalization...
That's not the only dilemma faced by this new wave of goal-oriented minimalists. One of the trickier questions is what counts as an item. Bruno considers a pair of shoes to be a single entity, which seems sensible but still pretty hard-core when you're trying to jettison all but 100 personal possessions. Cait Simmons, 27, a waitress in Chicago, takes a different approach. Although she has pared down her footwear collection from 35 to 20 pairs, she says, "All my shoes count as one item...
...that when mercury was taken out of childhood vaccines, it was replaced with other toxic preservatives such as formaldehyde and aluminum. Second, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be correct that there is no scientific evidence that vaccines are causing the rising wave of autism, they do not make the public aware that there are no scientific studies proving that vaccines are not to blame. Our government and pharmaceutical companies have not conducted any long-term double-blind placebo studies of vaccine-treatment results, and there is no proof one way or another. Marie D. Zeller...
...rejected a June 1 initiative that would have stiffened the country's already rigid naturalization process and have allowed townspeople to vote by secret ballot on whether to grant citizenship to their neighbors. The failure is a blow to the right-wing Swiss People's Party, which rode a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment to a plurality in parliament. About 22% of Swiss residents are foreigners--one of the highest rates in Europe--and the party exploited rising xenophobia in its referendum campaign with ads depicting dark hands snatching Swiss passports...