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...Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Robotic Life Group looked to the animatronic teddy bear that keeps Haley Joel Osment's robot-boy company in the movie AI. The researchers have been working since 2005 to engineer an interactive health care teddy bear, with advice from Hollywood's Stan Winston Studio, the engineers behind AI's "Teddy," according to MIT student researcher Dan Stiehl...
...success. He resigned in disgrace in 2004 after being convicted of illegally tapping the phone of a journalist who had written negative articles on the company. DIED. Melissa Hayden, 83, lyrical, vibrant ballerina who became an international standout in George Balanchine's famously starless New York City Ballet; in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Such was her status in a company known for downplaying individual artists that when she announced her retirement in 1973, Balanchine created a work in her honor, Cortege Hongrois, that remains in the company's repertoire. Blunt, generous and emotional, Hayden, who taught until her death, dazzled...
DIED. Melissa Hayden, 83, lyrical, vibrant ballerina who became an early international standout in George Balanchine's famously starless New York City Ballet; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Such was her status in a company known for downplaying individual performers that after she announced her retirement in 1973, Balanchine created a work in her honor, Cortège Hongrois, which remains in the company's repertoire. Blunt, generous and emotional, Hayden, who taught until her death, dazzled in diverse ballets like the bouncy, light-hearted Stars and Stripes, with music by John Philip Sousa, and Illuminations, an allegorical meditation on the life...
...Miss Sunshine crown. The vehicle is a perfect symbol of the family's tenuous grip on reality: only the third and fourth gears are functioning. That metaphor is pitch-perfect, but the film works a little too hard at proving the vileness of beauty pageants. When the M.C. (Matt Winston) croons God Bless America into the contestants' innocent ears, he pretty much summarizes American awfulness. It is a broad and fertile field, and the Hoover family plows it desperately in a comedy that touches on blackness without surrendering...
There is something very sinister to my mind in this mesopotamian entanglement," Winston Churchill wrote his Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in August 1920. "Week after week and month after month for a long time we shall have a continuance of this miserable, wasteful, sporadic warfare marked from time to time certainly by minor disasters and cuttings off of troops and agents, and very possibly attended by some very grave occurrence...