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Why would a healthy person want to be a human guinea pig, subjecting himself to hundreds of medical tests? If you're a biotech writer, maybe it's because it provides a great deal of rich information for your work. Journalist and author David Ewing Duncan talks about why he decided to be an experimental man.

Concerns over food safety, traffic and air problems and press freedoms, continue to dampen China's build up to the 2008 Olympic Games. But as the country marks one year to go before the games begin at 8:08 on 08/08/08, they say they are right one track toward their goal of hosting the best games ever.

Peru's close presidential race features a leftist who opposes eradication of Peru's coca crop, a former congresswoman who would like to codify trade with the United States and a former president. Voters head to the polls on Sunday.

Om Shanti Om

After Pearl Harbor, about 120,000 Japanese Americans were uprooted and forced to live for years in federal camps. Internment changed the traditional Japanese diet and erased the family table.

Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and former Premier Benazir Bhutto are close to reaching an agreement to transition the government toward democracy, according to a Musharraf ally and Bhutto.

President Bush's formal request for another $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan arrives on Capitol Hill. Four Senate committees promise hearings on the funding request. NPR's David Welna reports.

In England the film's working title was 1984 & frac12;, and that provides a good indication of how Gilliam is about to offer his own variation of Orwell's novel. Gilliam presents us with an Orwellian future world but then adds a Walter Mitty-like character filtered through Kafka or Dostoevsky. Mix in ample helpings of darkly absurd comedy, romance, fantasy, social satire and a provocative ending, and you'll begin to get a taste of the exhilarating cinematic concoction Gilliam is whipping up.