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...greenhouse effect, there's another villain less well known: our forests. Or, rather, the lack of them. Forests, especially in the lush tropics, suck and store carbon, which is released when trees are cut down or burnt. At the current rate of destruction, deforestation is estimated to account for up to 20% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The amount of carbon stored in tropical forests is staggering - Brazil alone has nearly 50 billion tons - and its loss would ensure dramatic climate change. Scientists estimate that without a change in business as usual, more than half of the Amazon forest...
...What, indeed, was it all about? The weirdly divided subjectivity evinced by the narrator’s insistence on speaking of himself in the third person is particularly jarring when juxtaposed with the next story, “tape measure,” a first-person account of a hyperconscious tapeworm who commences his narrative from inside a toilet bowl.“Once I’d been ingested I knew what to do where I found myself, I gained consciousness; nature is a miracle in the know-how it has provided, ready, in all its millions of varieties...
...such as when she is possessed by a frantic Sumerian-speaker. Otherwise, when called upon for subtle acting in normal conversations, her performance becomes lifeless. Such difficulties may be linked to the fact that English is not the mother tongue of this German/Romanian actress. The language barrier may also account for the usually exceptional Swiss actor Bruno Ganz’s flat depiction. “Youth Without Youth,” an ambitious film, falls short of success. Coppola tries to compensate for the lack of a coherent storyline and weak performances with grand dramatic music and cinematography...
...names, make up "only 15% of the applicants, but they are almost 40% of the unmatched" cases, according to attorney Myrna Perez of the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, who also represents the plaintiffs. Similarly, African Americans make up 13% of the applicants but account for 26% of the cases where the names or driver's license or Social Security numbers on the applications don't match those in the official databases. "Perfectly eligible real people are not getting registered," says Perez...
...Sarkozy must surely hope Gaddafi does not veer off script again, by ultimately shopping for arms elsewhere, after the negotiations expire next June. France is the world's fourth-biggest arms exporter. But the top three - the United States, Britain, and Russia - account for nearly three-quarters of global arms sales, and they could increase that share in the future, leaving France ever-further behind...