Tuesday, September 15, 1998
Italian bags top award at Venice film festival
Italian movie director Gianni Amelio won this year's top Venice film festival prize, marking the first award of the Golden Lion to a competitor from the host country in a decade. The award was for his film ``Cosi Ridevano'' (That's how they laughed).
Fun with funerals: Germans want a happy end
At first glance it looks like a traditional Teutonic funeral, with black-clad mourners congregated round the casket. But then, as the pallbearers begin lowering the coffin, colourful, helium-filled balloons soar aloft and the mourners begin swaying to Jose Carreras' "Time to say goodbye''. Meanwhile, the whole event is recorded on videotape for replay at family reunions.
Scientists discover rafts in living cells
Indian scientists studying the structure of living cells have discovered tiny rafts on their surface, transporting a class of proteins the way boats carry people across the river.
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