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...Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which opens Nov. 16) and Peter Jackson (The Fellowship of the Ring, due Dec. 19) have been on a sacred, scary quest. Each director must feel like a kid or a Hobbit who's been given a broom or ring with odd powers and told to go save the world. So it's nice to see that early indications give hope to match the hype. Snippets of the Tolkien film enthralled viewers at Cannes this May. And the Potter trailer is a smash. Hogwarts looks like a wizard's dream come...
President Bush's decision to fund work on some 60-odd existing colonies of human stem cells, and only those colonies, hit a serious snag last week with the revelation that virtually all stem cells are cultivated using embryonic mouse tissue. The mouse cells provide the human ones with nutrients and growth factors crucial to their survival and proliferation. The problem: under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species. Although hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without any sign of foreign...
...trip, the 1.5 million-hectare Sanchahe Nature Reserve, 48 km north of Jinghong, offers tree houses in the forest canopy for around $25 a night. Take a guide and venture deep into the forest to try to see the wild elephants?and even, it's rumored, the odd tiger?that still live in the park. Here, too, strangely shaped trees abound. As before, however, games of banyan make-believe are recommended only for the severely suggestible...
...Many Ways to Be No. 1 has a devious structure that Alan Ayckbourn might envy: a layabout named Kau (Lau Ching-wan) is drawn into a heist scheme. Is it in China? Or in Taiwan? The two parts of this what-if scenario show the results, with some odd twists, as when the hoods laboriously seal their comrade's corpse behind a wall, then hear the sound of a beeper?it's the dead man's, which they need to get further instructions, and they buried it with him behind the wall. Wai visualized this complex farrago with a dizzying...
...results were impressive: gnarled, noirish items like The Odd One Dies and Where a Good Man Goes. Milkyway developed a solid rep, and its house star, the sensitively sullen Lau Ching-wan, became the poor man's Chow Yun-fat. A Hero Never Dies, a blueprint for Fulltime Killer in its rivalry of two gang lieutenants, won a fistful of critics' prizes. Running Out of Time garnered Andy Lau his first Best Actor citation in the Hong Kong Film Awards. With The Mission, To was elevated to top status among Asian action auteurs. One of his first Milkyway films...