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From the outset, The Passion--a Jesus film that underlined the story's physical and emotional violence--was bound to start arguments. For extra realism, dialogue is in Aramaic and Latin (though some scholars say the Romans in Palestine spoke Greek). To accent the strangeness, there are no subtitles (that's being rethought). A $25 million film directed, co-scripted and self-financed by a famous Catholic conservative...
...first sub-$500 model to sport a 10x optical zoom lens. Last week two more 10x zoom cameras--Fujifilm's 3.1-megapixel FinePix S5000 and Kodak's 4-megapixel EasyShare DX6490--hit the market for the same price. Most digital cameras have zoom lenses only up to 4x; the extra magnification is a real performance boost. Now when you're on a nature hike and spot that yellow-bellied sapsucker, you can get right in his beak--without startling him from his perch. --By Wilson Rothman
Behind the preparations being made by Abe Abrams and his U.S. Army fighting comrades lies the decision made by President John Kennedy last spring to increase the flexibility of the nation's defenses ... In appropriations, the Army got an extra $1.4 billion with instructions to spend it mainly on the men and materiel of limited war. Around the world, Army units are getting a badly needed transfusion of modern equipment ... By the end of the year the Army will have increased from 856,000 to 1,080,000 men. Three Stateside training divisions are being elevated to combat readiness...
...compounded by the fact that it's now their star, Hideki Matsui, who is hitting home-runs in America). They have a higher winning percentage than any team on either side of the Pacific. The sudden boom in Tiger bedspreads, vitamin drinks and bullhorns is expected to pump an extra $1 billion into the Japanese economy. Even a foreigners' magazine in the region, Kansai Time Out, which specializes in being unimpressed by Japanese fashions, has an article on the Tigers in its current issue, another article on its information technology page, and yet another on its language page (explaining...
...Airways have been backpedaling fast. "We don't expect people to compare us to Rio, we're just Koh Samui," says M.L. Nandhika Varavarn, the airline's senior director of corporate communications. She proclaimed the carnival a success, claiming a first-day crowd of 10,000, full hotels and extra flights scheduled from Bangkok. "The idea was to give the island a boost in the low season, and we achieved that...