The region is luring foreign R&D investment not just with low costs but with quality scientists and technicians At a trade show on mobile-phone technology in Cannes, France, last February, Finland’s Nokia showed off what the next generation of wireless systems might do using its “all-IP architecture.” That’s a sophisticated body of software that could […]
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From Fox Pictures Steven Soderbergh, whose eclectic resume includes the Academy Award(R)-winning drama “Traffic” as well as last year’s ensemble caper “Ocean’s Eleven,” now brings his unique vision to SOLARIS, a story of love, redemption, second chances and a space mission gone terribly wrong. SOLARIS is a love story rich with emotion and mystery, set
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Barely two weeks before 20th Century Fox launches Steven Soderbergh¹s film adaptation of the science fiction classic, Solaris, by the world-renowned Polish writer, Stanisław Lem, the Polish Cultural Institute and the Pioneer Theater are giving science-fiction fans and Lem aficionados a chance to see four Polish films based on Lem stories that nicely capture the
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Shanghai company brings classic `Coppelia’ to Blumenthal The history of classical ballet in China spins on the very toe of political upheaval. It came to China with Russian dancers who fled the Bolshevik Revolution. These émigrés set up dancing schools in major cities such as Shanghai, where a young Margot Fonteyn studied ballet from 1928-1933.
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A festival entitled Dialogue of Four Cultures is currently taking place in the Polish city of Åódź. The four cultures in question are Polish, Russian, Jewish and German. According to Polish public television, the festival’s purpose is to bring together all the unique features of different forms of art and cultural traditions, and to remind
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