Monday, October 4, 1999
Plumes of smoke -- Hollywood's love-hate relationship
There are reasons to be interested in The Insider. It is director Michael Mann's first film since his cops-and-robbers epic, Heat, and Al Pacino is on board again.
In sight, Japan's artificial retina for visually-impaired
Scientists are working on artificial retinas and `vision chips', miniature silicon-based devices with electric circuits, that will mimic the complex information processing which takes place in the brain to provide vision to the blind.
Telescope
The Hallmark entertainment channel did a trial run in India last year and much to the delighted astonishment of many viewers (especially female), it ran like a non-stop Mills & Boons novel made specifically for television.
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