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...pictures from an X-ray studio...
...Joburg detention camp, and the plight of their human warden who gets infected and forges a bond with the aliens to save his own life, is the sixth s-f action adventure to win a weekend in the 2009 summer season that began in early May with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But it's the first one not sponsored by Hollywood - Jackson raised the money, Sony bought the rights - and the first South African film that American audiences have paid much attention to since the tribesman fable The Gods Must Be Crazy earned $25 million (about $55 million in today...
Starting with expensive procedures like CAT scans. The clearer and more comprehensive x-ray imaging known as computerized tomography (CT) is certainly one of the most valuable recent advances in medical technology. But doctors are gorging on it: the number of CAT scans performed in the U.S. each year has leapt more than 200% in the past decade, and a third of them are likely unnecessary, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. The overuse is acute in cities like Miami because doctors and hospitals feel they have to justify the glut of CT machines and related personnel they...
Today, Cubao X is buzzing. Shops come and go quickly, so you never know who will open their doors at 4 p.m. - the hour that most of the owners, being night owls, prefer to commence business. "It's completely different from a mall - it's still independent and nonmainstream," says indie filmmaker Bong Salaveria. His appointment-only antique store, Vintage Pop, was one of the vanguard establishments of the newly recolonized compound. Salaveria closed it in July - he is about to emigrate to Canada - but Vintage Pop's range of 20th century kitsch, which Salaveria sometimes customized, was emblematic...
Despite all the comings and goings, Cubao X stands as a stronghold of hip, culture-savvy, creative Manila - most conspicuously on Friday and Saturday nights, when avant-garde DJ sets, indie-rock gigs, poetry readings, independent-movie screenings and art-show openings spring up as if spontaneously. Yet even without an event on the cards, the compound's motley venues offer plenty of diversions. It's hard not to find joy within the expansive Grand Thrift House, tel: (63) 920 962 3079, run by a family of antique and curio collectors - expect vintage Elvis posters, brick-sized cell phones...