Meanwhile, in the United Arab Emirates, the film is being offered the kind of support it doesn't need. According to Screen International, the UAE-based distributor Front Row Entertainment has been contacted by organisations related to the Hezbollah in Lebanon with offers of help.
I was quite surprised to find that running TCP Optimizer, which fine-tunes the TCP/IP settings of Windows, clearly improved my performance, especially while web browsing.
If you have a broadband connection and still run on the default settings in XP, 9x or 2K, I recommend you have a look at this tool.
British researchers have developed a method that can reliably measure a woman's biological clock and predict when a woman will reach menopause.
The test uses an ultrasound scan to work out the size of a woman's ovaries and a complex computer programme to predict how many eggs she has left.
Dr Hamish Wallace, a cancer specialist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, who helped to develop the technique, said: "In essence, it means that we now have the potential to be able to tell a woman how much time she has before her biological clock runs down."
Ovaries are thought to have a finite number of eggs and the number falls throughout a woman's life. When the number reaches around 25,000 - typically when a woman reaches the age of 37 - the decline accelerates and over the next few years women find it more difficult to conceive. When the number reaches around 1,000 the first signs of menopause begin to appear.
The test is not expected to be available for wider audiences in some time yet. Isn't it aøways like that?
Right now, we should really be in the middle of an oil crisis with only five years of oil comsume left in the world's reserves. In 1980, there were enough oil for 29 years, and we have now used 80 per cent of it. But British Petroleum's Chief Analyst Michael Smith told yesterday we have enough oil for 41 years with the known reserves.
We have never had more reserves, and even with the world comsume increasing, we find oil faster than we can use it. Just last year, the reserves increased by 10 per cent. Smith pointed out that nobody must misconstrue his statements to mean we will now run out in 41 years; more will be found.
On the other hand, Smith and most other analysts believe we are not likely to return to cheap oil. The prices are now very high, but even if the situation in the Middle East should stabilise, prices are unlikely to get down to previous levels in the foreseeable future.
As former Opec strongman Sheikh Zaki Yamani, Saudi oil minister from 1962 to 1986, famously said: The oil age will not end due to shortage of oil, no more than the stone age ended because we ran out of stone.
Norway has made 30bn kroner ($4.36bn) extra so far this year thanks to higher-than-expected oil prices.
More about UNSCAM and the UN investigating itself. Kofi Annan's bureaucrats have actually found some problems in the organisation in a recent report.
More directly to the point, the report itself, on page 11, notes that "staff members feel unprotected from reprisals for reporting violations of the codes of conduct. This is not a perception confined to a few staff in remote locales and/or dangerous circumstances. Forty-six percent (46%) gave unfavourable response to this item, while only 12% gave favourable responses."
As Mr. Annan recounts, there is considerable focus on "tone at the top" (while most staffers trust their immediate bosses, their opinion of U.N. senior leaders is "less positive"). And as the report politely explains, there are concerns about accountability ("Most of the infrastructure to support ethics and integrity is in place; accountability is not").
Kofi Annan has a solution, though: A group of top bosses getting together to write more reports!
