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Ciprian Joe LoGiudice, a former art dealer, is a writer, filmmaker, and producer. Joe was Terry Southern's co-author on numerous screen and stage plays and is currently Executive Producer, along with Bob Balaban, and Wendy Apple on the feature film now in production, The Universe According to Levine . LoGiudice is Co-Trustee of the Terry Southern Literary Trust.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Taiwan is one of the most densely populated places in the world, and there's not much more room for new cemeteries. But a U.S. firm is offering a solution: shooting people's remains into space. The Houston-based Celestis Inc. announced Thursday that it has signed a deal with one of Taiwan's biggest funeral homes, Baushan Enterprise, to provide ``space burials'' to the Taiwanese. Robert Tysor, chief executive of Celestis, explained how it works at a contract-signing ceremony in Taipei. He said the ashes are packed into an aluminum tube about the size of a lipstick container. The tube is shot into space on commercial rockets from bases in the United States and Russia, he said. The tube orbits Earth once every 90 minutes before re-entering Earth's atmosphere and burning up, he said. It can orbit for months or even years, he said.

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