| Morning Express: February 22nd
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Diary of the Dead
George Romero's bleakest zombie movie yet.Dana Stevensposted Feb. 15, 2008Super Frat BoyHayden Christensen in Jumper.Dana Stevensposted Feb. 14, 2008Strangers in Strange LandsIn Bruges and The Band's Visit reviewed.Dana Stevensposted Feb. 8, 2008Hating JunoHow the backlash started.Dana Stevensposted Feb. 8, 2008Search for more movies articlesSubscribe to the movies RSS feedView our complete movies archive .
Top 10 phones for January
In fact, we had the Sony Ericsson W580i and the W960i also running for the last spot, but we gave it to the K810i eventually as the Cyber-shot had been on the chart more times than both the W580i and W960i combined over the past few months. New entrants for January's Top 10 comprise the Nokia 6500 classic and the 5310 XpressMusic. The chart now tips 8:2 in favor of Nokia. Scroll down for the full listing.
Note: Results are based on readership as well as data collected from retail outlets (Mobile Square and WhyMobile) and the major mobile operators in Singapore including:
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Speedway Children's Charities gives $7,500 for public school projects
Speedway Children's Charities gave $7,500 for public school projects in parts of North Carolina, including Cabarrus County. Eleven Rowan County teachers have posted projects on www.DonorsChoose.org, and the Speedway Children's Charities money goes to purchase resources for use in the classroom. Thirteen requests from Rowan-Salisbury teachers have been funded through DonorsChoose.org to date. One West Rowan High School class, listed as Mrs. B.'s on the Web site, sought high-tech equipment to help with a broadcast. This was their funding request: "Our rural high school boasts several cows, chickens, goats and sheep. What we lack is an abundance of technology. I teach 11th grade honors and Advanced Placement English as well as the journalism course.
Astronauts gear up for rendezvous and docking
The Atlantis astronauts, closing in on the international space station, are gearing up for docking today to wrap up a two-day orbital chase. Looping below the lab complex and then up to a point directly in front of the station, commander Steve Frick plans to manually guide Atlantis to a linkup around 12:25 p.m. Frick, pilot Alan Poindexter, flight engineer Rex Walheim, Leland Melvin, Stan Love and European Space Agency astronauts Hans Schlegel and Leopold Eyharts were awakened at 4:45 a.m. today by a recording of Garrison Keillor singing about powdermilk biscuits from "A Prairie Home Companion." "Good morning Atlantis," astronaut Shannon Lucid radioed from mission control. "And an especially great good morning to you today, Steve. It's a great day for rendezvous." "Hey, thanks very much, Shannon," Frick replied.
Review: 'Vantage Point' doesn't add up
Vantage Point: Drama. Starring Dennis Quaid, William Hurt and Forest Whitaker. Directed by Pete Travis. (PG-13. 90 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets for select theaters, go to sfgate.com/movies.) "Vantage Point" has a fractured and frustrating narrative. It presents a colossal terrorist attack in Spain, in which two bombs go off and the president of the United States is shot. We see this happen once, and then the clock is wound back and we see the same events happening again and again, each time from the perspective of another character. There should be a reason for filmmakers to tell a story in this way, and for a while the temptation is to look for one. For example, if all the recollections contradicted each other, then the movie could be a commentary on the faultiness of memory, particularly in recollecting moments of crisis.
Ready to roar
A: It's interesting that you ask that, because one of my sources just described Ma as having the leadership abilities of Chairman Mao. He does have natural leadership abilities. Not only does he have the gift of telling a story well, but I have seen him mesmerize entire audiences at leading industry events. He can light up a room. It might not be too much of an exaggeration to say that Ma has the charisma of Bill Clinton, the chutzpah of Richard Branson, the marketing genius of Steve Jobs and the fortune of Bill Gates. Ma is one of the few Chinese entrepreneurs with global impact. Q: Ma's story is fascinating, isn't it? A: Yes. He rose from a social outcast during Mao's China (because of his family's bourgeois background) to become an English-language schoolteacher and later a rich and famous Internet entrepreneur.
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