BC-AP World Features Digest

2009-06-26 03:19:01 -

Below is a list of feature stories that The Associated Press plans to move in the coming week. Questions about the stories may be addressed to the North America Desk supervisor in New York at 212-621-1650 (fax 212-621-5449 or e-mail amidesk@ap.org) or to individual bureaus in your country or region.
We will update this digest daily, adding new features as available. Feature stories that moved in the previous three days are included at the bottom for editors who may not have seen them.
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BC-US--FEA-Hurt Locker, Friday, June 26
BC-US--FEA-Toxic Legacy of War, Sunday, July 28
BC-US--FEA-Do The Right Thing Anniversary, Sunday, July 28
BC-AS-FEA--Malaysia-Forgotten Evolutionist, Monday, July 29
Friday, June 26
`Hurt Locker' aims to break apathy for Iraq films
LOS ANGELES _ Films about the war on terror have not been high on audiences' must-see list. Yet the makers of the latest, «The Hurt Locker,» hope they have the ingredients that box-office duds about Iraq and Afghanistan have lacked. Director Kathryn Bigelow and her colleagues deliver nail-biting tension and a remarkable you-are-there feeling with «The Hurt Locker,» giving viewers a real sense of the lives of bomb-defusing technicians in Baghdad. BC-US--FEA-Hurt Locker. By David Germain. AP Photos NYET594-595,, NYET578-595
Museum celebrates remarkable life of Walt Disney
SAN FRANCISCO _ He's the reason adults of a certain age can't stop themselves from finishing the song line beginning «M-I-C-K-E-Y,» the force causing untold legions to see marching mops when they hear the rousing strains of «The Sorcerer's Apprentice.» But the story of Walt Disney the man sometimes gets forgotten in the telling of his legend. Descendants of the 20th-century innovator hope to fix that disconnect with The Walt Disney Family Museum, opening this fall in San Francisco. BC-US--FEA-Disney Museum. By Michelle Locke. AP Photos FX124-126
Herman Leonard chronicles intimate jazz moments
NEW YORK _ A woman answered the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron. «First I thought, This is the maid,» says photographer Herman Leonard. «She said, 'Excuse me, but I've got to feed the dog.' She had a steak in the frying pan, and she was cooking the steak for the dog.» The woman was Billie Holiday, one of the greatest voices of modern times. Click. The scene was sealed forever on film by Leonard, now 86, who captured the odd, intimate moments in the lives of jazz greats. In the last half of the 20th century, he documented the most fertile period in jazz history; the Smithsonian has more than 130 Leonard photographs in its permanent collection. BC-US--FEA-Giants of Jazz. By Verena Dobnik. AP Photos NYR101-106
Daughter aims to heal US megachurch Crystal Cathedral
GARDEN GROVE, California _ Starting at age 4, Sheila Schuller Coleman has held just about every job at her father's Crystal Cathedral, from copying Sunday programs at the kitchen table to launching a private high school on the church grounds. Now, five decades after the Rev. Robert H. Schuller Sr. set up the church, his daughter is facing her most challenging job there yet: taking over her father's megachurch and its internationally known «Hour of Power» television ministry at a time of both financial and family crisis. BC-US--FEA-REL-Hour of Power Shift. By Gillian Flaccus. AP Photos NY326-328.
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_BC-US--FEA-Holly Williams. AP Photos NYET581-582
_BC-US--FEA-Diego Rivera Exhibit. AP Photos TXMO105-108
_BC-US--FEA-Economy-American Theater. AP Photo NYET521
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_BC-US--FEA-US-Film Reviews
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Sunday, June 28
U.S.-trained Palestinian force is keen for action
JENIN, West Bank _ In the live-fire exercise, everything was choreographed _ Palestinian commandos, faces blackened, stormed the militants' hide-out, «wounded» one gunman and «arrested» a second. But is this American-trained corps ready for the real thing? President Barack Obama's hopes to foster Mideast peace may rest on that question _ given that the force is supposed to help create a stable Palestinian state that will be acceptable to Israel. BC-ML--FEA-Fighting for Palestine. By Karin Laub. AP Photos NY330-338
Amid Jewish revival, Poland gets openly gay rabbi
WARSAW, Poland _ Aaron Katz's world is much like any other rabbi's _ synagogue sermons, Sabbath dinners for his congregation, matchmaking for the unmarried. But he also happens to be Poland's first openly gay rabbi _ a fact that has drawn a few disapproving murmurs amid a general welcome for his efforts to rebuild a Jewish world destroyed by the Holocaust. BC-EU-FEA--Poland-Gay Rabbi. By Vanessa Gera. AP Photos NY321-324
Did toxic chemical in Iraq cause GIs' illnesses
CHICAGO _ Three men _ one sick, one dying, one dead. All were National Guard soldiers on the same stretch of wind-swept desert in Iraq in 2003. These soldiers and hundreds of other Guard members from Indiana, Oregon and West Virginia were protecting workers hired by a subsidiary of the giant contractor, KBR Inc., to rebuild an Iraqi water treatment plant. The area, as it turned out, was contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a potent, sometimes deadly chemical linked to cancer and other devastating diseases. No one disputes that. But that's where agreement ends. Among the issues rippling from the courthouse to Capitol Hill: whether the chemical made people sick, when KBR knew it was there and how the company responded. BC-US--FEA-Toxic Legacy of War. By Sharon Cohen. AP Photos NY315-320
'Do The Right Thing' still asks burning questions
NEW YORK _ Twenty years later, the trash can is still crashing through our window. Much about race relations has changed since «Do The Right Thing» exploded into theaters in 1989: The police choke hold that killed Radio Raheem has long been outlawed. Ronald Reagan has given way to Barack Obama. But for every measure of undeniable progress, the film also points to the divides that remain. BC-US--FEA-Do The Right Thing Anniversary. By Jesse Washington. AP Photos NY360-364
Monday, June 29
Forgotten evolutionist lives in Darwin's shadow
SANTUBONG, Malaysia _ It is on a hilltop in this jungle, in a long-gone thatched hut, that Alfred Russel Wallace is believed to have spent weeks in 1855 writing a seminal paper on the theory of evolution. Yet Wallace is largely unknown outside scientific circles, overshadowed by Charles Darwin. Now George Beccaloni, a 41-year-old British evolutionary biologist, is on a quest to return Wallace to what he sees as his rightful place in history. BC-AS-FEA--Malaysia-Forgotten Evolutionist. By Michael Casey. AP Photos NY372-382; AP Graphic FORGOTTEN EVOLUTIONIST
Indian farmers who cashed out struggle with riches
MUNIMPUR, India _ For generations, the men of Munimpur rose before dawn to till their wheat fields. That was when the land was made of dirt, not money. In recent years, tens of thousands of villagers across the country sold their fields to developers. But the new wealth has led to a string of crimes, created troubles from property disputes to depression and ruptured an age-old way of life. BC-AS-FEA--India-The Price of Money. By Sam Dolnick. AP Photos NY302-311
Wednesday, July 1
Designers find common cause with global artisans
NEW YORK _ In Africa, Asia and Latin America, many gifted craftspeople are expressing age-old traditions in beautiful ways, but often lack access to raw materials and distribution venues. And they may not have any expertise in getting their goods to a wider marketplace. In the spirit of an artistic global village, some established designers are using their talent, contacts and financial clout to give Third World artisans an international platform. BC-US--FEA-Global Artisans. By Kim Cook. AP Photos NYLS405-413
Thursday, July 2
Bad economy pushes visitors through zoo gates
CINCINNATI _ To draw visitors, zoos count on gentle giraffes rolling out their long tongues to grasp treats, stingrays gliding through a pool to be petted and the playful tussling of tiger cubs. This year they're also getting help from the recession. Zoos in cities including Cincinnati, St. Louis, Baltimore, Kansas City, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee, report higher attendance as consumers look for affordable entertainment closer to home. More than 58 percent of 120 members of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums responding to an April survey reported attendance increases year-over-year. BC-US--FEA-Zoos-Economy. By Lisa Cornwell. AP Photos NY406-408
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Tuesday, June 23

BC-US--FEA-Crime-fighting Retailers
As theft rises, stores step up anti-crime efforts.
BC--US-FEA-Hispanic Groceries
Large grocers, wholesalers appeal to Latinos.
BC-US--FEA-Makeup Business
Avon, Mary Kay ranks boom as second-job option.
Wednesday, June 24
BC-US--FEA-Out Of Africa
Coming to America: Africans playing basketball in US.
BC-US--FEA-Forest Cease-fire
Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace.
BC-US--FEA-Saving Turtles
New net timer could save sea turtles from drowning.
BC-US--FEA-Layoffs and Facebook
Layoffs and networking: To tweet or not to tweet
Thursday, June 25
BC-EU-FEA--Britain-July 4.
Want an all-American Independence Day? Try London.
BC-US--FEA-July 4 Fireworks
Must-see fireworks: Vegas to Rushmore to Cape Cod.
BC-US--FEA-Reno Artown
Reno's Artown fest: All of July, and mostly free.
BC-US--FEA-Portland on a Budget
Lobster-rich Maine won't cost a tail and a claw.
BC-US--FEA-Grand Canyon-Dangers
Grand Canyon fraught with peril for unprepared.
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