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In the film “Simone,” Al Pacino created a computer-generated actress he passed off as real. Now this is no longer fiction: for his two sequels to “The Matrix,” director JoelSilver mixes real actors in the same scenes with computer-generated images and you can’t tell the difference. And now”Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” has been made withan entirely computer-generated background–no sets at all.

Larry and Andy Wachowski, with their partner Gaeta, say they can now make movies in which it’s impossible to tell real characters and scenes from fake ones.
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Anne is not as alert as she has been, but her doctors arehoping that, once her fever has broken, she will become morealert. She has had a temperature of between 99 and 102 forfifteen days, and this, plus the difficulty of deep sleep inthe ICU, has, they believe, made her consciousness declinetemporarily.

However, they are still evaluating her brain with thegreatest care to be certain that her sleepiness is not dueto a neurological issue. At this time, that does not appearto be the case.

Thank you so much for your outpouring of support and prayer.There is no question that it has helped, and it has givenAnne great joy.

To read Whitley’s thoughts about his marriage in this timeof suffering, clickhere.
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A large and moderately complex sunspot group, NOAA Region696, wasresponsible for a series of eruptions on the surface of theSun knownas solar flares, including a significant eruption on 7November 2004 at9:06 a.m. MST. A radiation storm, currently at the moderate(S2)level, began soon after the eruption was observed on theSun. Solarflare activity over the past few days has resulted in aseries ofEarth-directed coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that haveimpacted Earth’sgeomagnetic field with severe (G4) geomagnetic storming. Today’s largeeruption on the Sun may produce further periods of stronggeomagneticstorming on 9-10 November.
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Saturday, October 18 was the most terrible day my wife and I have ever known. It started out as a lovely and very normal day. We went to a movie, then watched a baseball game with our son. At about nine, we went home. On the way, Anne suddenly said, “I have so many wonderful memories of my marriage.”

I was rather surprised–not that she had good memories of what has been a wonderful marriage for both of us, but because she said it. She’s a here and now person, not given to retrospection. I said that I was so glad to hear it, and I felt just the same.
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