Mark Tran on Disney’s bid for Pixar.
The News Review:
- Mark Tran on Disney’s bid for Pixar.
- India history spat hits US
- Google Agrees to Censor Service to Enter China.
- Crowded house is coach’s fancy
- Freecycle frees up landfills
- Hearts in search of home
- Warning: Don’t let down your guard
Mark Tran on Disney’s bid for Pixar.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 24, 2006
But with the advent of computer generated films, Disney has floundered. Hits have been few and far between while the flops have piled up, including Treasure Planet, Atlantis, Brother Bear and Home on the Range.
India history spat hits US
Christian Science Monitor – Jan 24, 2006
The HEF and Vedic Foundation both lobbied hard to change the wording of California’s textbooks so that Hinduism would be described as purely home grown. “Textbooks must mention that none of the [ancient] texts, nor any Indian tradition, has a recollection of any Aryan invasion or migration,” writes S. Kalyanaraman, an engineer and prominent pro-Hindu activist, in an e-mail to this reporter. He and other revisionists refer to recent studies that don’t support an Aryan migration, including skeletal anthropology research that claims to show a continuity of record from Neolithic times. Such research has not convinced top Indologists to abandon the Aryan theory, however.
Google Agrees to Censor Service to Enter China.
Free with registration – eWeek – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 24, 2006
The new Chinese service will offer a censored version of Google’s popular search system that could restrict access to thousands of terms and Web sites. Hot topics might include issues like independence for Taiwan or Tibet or outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong. In seeking to compete more aggressively in the world’s second biggest Internet market–;where Google has lost ground to a more popular home-grown search company Baidu.
Crowded house is coach’s fancy
NEWS.com.au – news.com.au – Jan 24, 2006
“We have to be 100 per cent sure we get it right and we can’t make the same mistakes. Once the state leagues start in Australia we’ll be scouting players there and we’ll be listening to agents from overseas. It hasn’t been all doom and gloom with Adshead delighted with the progress of some of the younger home-grown boys – strikers Jeremy Brockie and Kris Bright and defender Cole Tinkler. “Brockie has been exceptional. He has dealt with it physically,” Adshead said.
Freecycle frees up landfills
augusta.com – Jan 24, 2006
Bixby met through the Freecycle network. That’s the whole point of the Freecycle Network, an online swap shop of sorts for items that otherwise might be junked. Started in Arizona as a grass-roots environmental effort, Freecycle allows members to post descriptions of possessions they no longer want in hopes that someone will snatch them up, giving them a second life. In turn, members also can list things they’re hoping to acquire, which for Ms.
Hearts in search of home
Christian Science Monitor – Jan 24, 2006
Fortunately for Sai, however, the cook at Cho Oyu cherishes her as if she were his own. His actual child, Biju, is living in New York, eking out a bare existence waiting tables and sleeping in a basement (even as his father imagines him to be amassing wealth and prestige). Inevitably, however, as Sai has grown older, the cook’s love has no longer been enough, and now she has turned her attention to her young tutor, Gyan. Gyan, an ethnic Nepalese, loves Sai in return – until he becomes swept up with a group of insurgents agitating for freedom from India and decides he needs to despise her and her bourgeois ways. As the insurgency grows in strength, however, all of these lives will be upended… He can “feel the pulse of the forest, smell the humid air, the green black lushness; he could imagine all its different textures, the plumage of banana, the stark spear of the cactus, the delicate gesture of ferns. Longing is perhaps the thing that the characters in this novel do best. They long for home, they long for love, they long for acceptance – yet rarely are they skilled at locating any of the above. That’s not to say that the lives in this story don’t include tenderness and occasional moments of cozy pleasure. But perhaps Gyan, the young tutor, says it best when he glimpses – after failing to find a sense of purpose in history and politics – that “happiness has a smaller location. • Marjorie Kehe is the Monitor’s book editor.
Warning: Don’t let down your guard
Daily Telegraph – Jan 24, 2006
Fishy stories
HOW bad can it be? That’s what we really want to know. Say you haul up a flathead on your trusty handline from a jetty in Sydney Harbour. You fillet the flapper, take it home and flip in on the barbecue. A squeeze of lemon, some lettuce, a home-grown tomato or two, a glass of crisp chardonnay and a bowl of chips. And you dine like a king in this blessed city. What we have right now is a state of confusion.