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...savage flooding North Korea experienced in August of last year, which devastated large swaths of farmland, thus limiting the North's own ability to produce grain. "The current balance between grain requirements and supply in the North is more precarious than at any time since the '90s," says Noland. Political tension, particularly between the North and new South Korean government of Lee Myung Bak, is also playing a role. Lee, a month after his inauguration earlier this year, decided he would continue Seoul's humanitarian assistance of food aid and fertilizer regardless of progress in the nuclear talks - but only...
...treat is for grownups, who get a beguiling character study behind and above the special effects. Favreau - who directed the best Will Ferrell comedy (Elf) and an agreeably mature fantasy (Zathura: A Space Adventure), and before that wrote and starred in Swingers, maybe the sharpest buddy comedy of the '90s - knows that, when making a big movie, you do not leave your I.Q. at the soundstage door; you bend your gifts in different directions. He lends Iron Man the unobtrusive speed and precision of classic comedy. An actor before he was a director, he's not content...
...finally find her inside. “This weekend is really emblematic of me leaving Harvard. It’s my last Eleganza show and I’m moving on next year to other things,” she says. The DJ puts on a ’90s throwback song and Alford laughs lightheartedly, joining a circle of her friends with whom she’ll dance until the morning...
...first single from Portishead’s new album, “Third.”More than 10 years after their eponymous second album, the prospect of a third Portishead studio release seemed something less than viable. After all, trip-hop was a movement firmly entrenched in the 90s, petering out with Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine” in 1998. Without a cultural groundswell like that of the original Bristol scene to inspire a new direction for the sound, Portishead seemed destined to gather dust alongside the decade’s other forgotten greats...
...Intrigued, I read on to find that on April 5, she passed away as one of the most successful child talent representatives of the modern era. Burton’s is a story with no shortage of strange Hollywood connections.From TV stars of the 90s to actors known to today’s younger generations, Burton’s child actor rap sheet speaks for itself. Drew Barrymore, River and Joaquin Phoenix, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kirsten Dunst, Jaleel White, Hilary Duff, Kirk Cameron, Tori Spelling, and Corey Feldman: all can give thanks to Burton for their discoveries.When...