Q: With the recent passing of Steve Jobs, I am interested to learn if there is a motion picture in the works. Can you provide any information?
Scott MacLean, Forest Park
A: Sony has acquired the rights to Walter Isaacson's authorized biography of the Apple co-founder — called "Steve Jobs" — the Los Angeles Times reported in October, and several media outlets, including the Times and Entertainment Weekly, have reported that Aaron Sorkin is interested in writing the script for a potential movie. Sorkin co-wrote "Moneyball" and won the Oscar in 2010 for Best Adapted Screenplay for "The Social Network." "Right now I'm just in the thinking-about-it stages," Sorkin told EW.com in November. "It's a really big movie and it's going to be a great movie no matter who writes it." Sorkin told EW.com he is reading Isaacson's book.
Q: I recently read we have between 13,000 and 15,000 people in our embassy in Iraq. Why is it possible to have that many people at that embassy and where do they live?
Geraldine Dunne, Johns Creek
A: The U.S. embassy in Baghdad, which opened in 2009, encompasses 104 acres — about 10 times larger than any other U.S. embassy — and has 21 buildings, including six apartment buildings, a commissary, theater, retail and shopping, a food court, a recreation building, a fire station and power and water treatment plants, according to media reports. The complex is six times larger than the United Nations compound in New York, FoxNews.com reported, and cost $592 million. Some of the embassy employees will work and live at U.S. consulates throughout Iraq. It is the largest U.S. diplomatic operation abroad, NPR.com reported.
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