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(CBS) Among the crop of summer blockbusters, Rupert Wyatt’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” ranks as one of the more entertaining and – probably – the most thought-provoking of the heavy hitters. Set in present-day San Francisco, the film is an original telling that serves as a precursor to 1968’s  “Planet of the Apes,” starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall. Will (James Franco) is a scientist on the brink of finding a cure for Alzheimers. Using chimpanzees as guinea pigs, he thinks he has discovered a cure for the irreversible disease when one of the chimps starts to display unparalleled growth in intelligence after using his miracle drug, ALZ 112, in clinical trials. Pictures: Summer movies 2011Read More: How the new “Planet of the Apes ” was made Money is not the motivator for Will. He wants to the company he works for to  bring the drug on the market and make it available for human use. His aging father (John Lithgow) is suffering from advanced Alzheimers and quickly deteriorating. When a meeting to persuade the company’s board  to begin human clinical trials  goes  tragically wrong, Franco’s character takes things into his own hands. He rescues an orphaned chimp from his test group, hiding the chimp in his home and using him to secretly continue testing his miracle drug. Fast forward three years and the chimp, named...

CARACAS,Venezuela — Seventeen people were killed at a crowded nightclub in Venezuela’s capital Saturday after a tear gas device exploded during a brawl and triggered a desperate stampede among hundreds gathered for a graduation celebration, government officials said. Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the incident at the “Los Cotorros” club in the middle-class neighborhood of El Paraiso left eight minors dead and five injured. Seven people have been detained, including the individual believed to have set off the tear gas canister. “The establishment has been ordered closed, and we are investigating in coordination with the public ministry, which is directing the criminal investigation,” he said. Outside the club, several mismatched shoes, 부천출장만남 including a sandal with a puckered red lip decoration, lay on the sidewalk. “All I know is my son is dead,” Nilson Guerra, 43, told local journalists. More than 500 people were believed to be inside the club when the fight broke out. Photos shared online from previous celebrations at the club show a dark interior with wooden tables and a stage upfront where DJs shuffled songs. Outside, a faded sign on the red brick building read, “We’ve opened!” Metal bars covered the doors and windows. Jesus Armas, an opposition councilman who lives in the neighborhood, said the Interior Ministry should explain how a civilian was able to obtain tear gas canisters that should only be utilized...