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...hometown she left in disgrace some years before. One of the people she is supposed to kill is the only boy she ever loved (Glenn Fitzgerald), who is both "ex-gay" and dying of testicular cancer. Among others on her hit list are an E.R. nurse (Marylouise Burke) whose Roman Catholic piety seems somehow to reinforce her talent for murder and a teenage girl (Merritt Wever) whose mom and dad cheer on her depredations as if she were playing soccer and had a shot at a college scholarship...
...Jason" fared poorly with both critics and the public. The market was glutted with dubbed, Grade-Z reworkings of Greek and Roman sagas, a cycle that began with the unexpected success of the campy Steve Reeves "Hercules" in 1959. But "Jason" has aged well, primarily because of its fine cast, incredible score and animated sequences that are still studied in film schools around the world. "The fight with the skeletons" is a phrase you will hear again and again when discussing the genre with experts, one of the best-ever examples of interaction between live actors and animated figures...
...opponents of cloning aren't feeling particularly calm - the Roman Catholic Church joined in a somewhat unlikely alliance with biomedical researchers and medical ethicists in voicing fierce aversion to the scientists' plans. "Those who made the atom bomb went ahead in spite of knowing about its terrible destruction," Bishop Elio Sgreccia, head of the John Paul II Institute for Bioethics, told Reuters Friday. "But this doesn't mean that it was the best choice for humanity...
...that has dogged Haiti since it won independence from France in 1804. Why does a black republic--whose colonial population was composed almost entirely of plantation slaves--still tolerate child bondage? "There was no value placed on children during the slavery era," says the Rev. Miguel Jean Baptiste, a Roman Catholic priest who runs the Maurice Sixto shelter in Port-au-Prince for restaveks who have run away or whose owners allow them a little schooling each day. "Unfortunately, we've carried that mentality with us today." Indeed, it is not uncommon to hear a Haitian say, "Timoun...
Until Mussolini drained the mosquito-infested marshes south of Rome in the 1930s, malaria struck the city with such deadly regularity each summer that it was called the Roman fever. Last week two British scientists said they have found what may be the first genetic evidence that the killer disease was a blight on life in ancient Rome as well...