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...Francisco Panorama is actually the 33rd issue of McSweeney's Quarterly, a literary journal known for its novel packaging. Previous issues have been sold as cigar boxes and bundles of mail. But the Panorama issue is different. The one-time experiment was conceived by Eggers to prove that print media weren't dead...
Equal parts artist and gearhead, Cameron, 55, has brought to film the time-travel saga of The Terminator, the watery depths of The Abyss and the sinking deck of Titanic. But more than any of his previous movies, Avatar is wholly Cameron's world. The 2½-hr. sci-fi epic follows an ex-Marine named Jake Sully as he struggles for survival on an alien moon called Pandora, home to a tall, blue, humanoid species called the Na'vi and to a mysterious resource called unobtainium, which draws humans in a future century to colonize the planet. Jake...
...widely believed to be an attempt to crack down on private businesses that operate outside the government's control. North Koreans will be able to exchange the equivalent of $40 in old currency for the new bills; anything over that will be lost. North Korea has conducted four previous currency exchanges, each one highly publicized. This time the government has remained tight-lipped. Pyongyang watchers report protests against the revaluation...
...over a week, a heavy police presence has remained outside of the main campus of the University of Tehran, in the center of the Iranian capital. Intense green-clad opposition protests occurred at universities in most major Iranian cities on Students Day, Dec. 7. Yet unlike the demonstrations in previous months, which lasted no more than a day each, students have remained defiant at Tehran's oldest university. In addition to showing support for opposition leaders like Mousavi, who ran against Ahmadinejad in the disputed June election, students are demanding the resignation of University of Tehran President Farhad Rahbar because...
...academe and the military remains unclear. James Der Derian, a professor of political science at Brown University who recently finished a documentary on HTS, and whose friend and colleague Michael Bhatia was killed in Afghanistan (one of three HTS social scientists to die on duty), says, "The emphasis in previous wars has been more about how you defeat the enemy by controlling territory" but that recently, "the center of gravity shifted to a psychological territory." HTS is a clear indication that the Pentagon has realized that in order to win the wars of the 21st century, cultural knowledge will need...