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article on widespread release of 3D films and the recent agreement between theater owners and studios on the financial structure for widespread installation of digital projection. 'Going Deep for Digital' by DAVID HALBFINGER.
After months of wrangling between the studios and several vendors, the first deals are being signed that could lead theater owners to buy and install digital projectors.
The structure of the deals follows a pattern. Theater owners pay roughly $10,000 toward the $85,000 cost of converting each auditorium. The balance is recovered, typically over 10 years, from the movie studios, which pay "virtual print fees."
These fees, which start at around $1,000 for each copy of a movie delivered to a theater, are intended to approximate the studios' financial savings on film prints and shipping. They have agreed to steer that money to the suppliers of digital cinema equipment.
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google blog post on internal use of market predictor systems. 'Putting Crowd Wisdom to Work' by BO COWGILL.
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article on dubious procedures and terms for federal government's Katrina reconstruction contracts.
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article about the relationship between China's two top leaders, Hu Jintao (president and Communist party chief) and Zeng Qinghong (vice president and the party's organizational leader). 'China's Leader, Ex-rival at Side, Solidifies Power' by JOSEPH KAHN.
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article on global warming and its effect on hurricanes. 'So Who is Right in Debate on Global Warming?' by ANDREW REVKIN.
It is also clear to many climate scientists and oceanographers that warmer oceans will eventually increase the intensity and rainfall of hurricanes, but not necessarily their frequency.
In fact, two recent studies of hurricanes, by different scientists using different methods, claimed to detect a big rise in hurricane intensity around the world over the last several decades.
But the authors of both analyses acknowledged that more data would be needed to confirm a link to human-caused warming. The murkiness arises because the relationship between long-term warming of the climate and seas is only perceptible in statistical studies of dozens of storms, not in the origin or fate of any particular storm.
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Kerry Emanuel, the author of one of the recent studies showing rising intensity, echoed many colleagues in saying that the impact of global warming was unlikely ever to be manifested in a black and white way that could serve as a call to arms for those seeking curbs on emissions. Instead, Dr. Emanuel, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it would emerge as if someone had subtly, but progressively, loaded a pair of dice.
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article on increasing use of data gathering and mining for evaluation and selection of hospitals and individual doctors. 'To Find a Doctor, Mine the Data' by MILT FREUDENHEIM.
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