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...stays around long enough, he'll see an endless recycling of his old work while his later work goes ignored. Francis Ford Coppola's first two Godfather films, in 1972 and '74, are among the most revered, and unquestionably the most influential, grownup films of the past half-century. Add The Conversation and his Vietnam movie, Apocalypse Now, and Coppola had one decade, the '70s, as artistically productive as almost any other filmmaker's in history. Yet in his later years, Coppola had trouble getting film financing; and in 2007, when he released Youth Without Youth, his first new picture...
Whoa - triple the density? Isn't the goal to ease traffic, not to add to it? What can be hardest for people to wrap their minds around is that to undo sprawl - and the traffic and smog and environmental waste that come with it - we might have to build a lot more on top of it. Right now, nearly half the land in Tysons is either roadway or parking. The new incarnation will be less car- and more people-oriented. So instead of there being stores and offices set back from the road, with parking in between, new mixed...
...Tysons has almost no public land. Like most other places in Fairfax County, Tysons is unincorporated and is overseen at the county level.) The government won't mandate these changes. Rather, property owners will apply individually to increase the scale or density of their holdings, to tear down or add to what is already standing, and work together to hammer out a grid of streets to replace the maddening squiggles of private, dead-end roads - a grid that Alcorn says is as important as the Metrorail in battling congestion...
When creating your character, you get to pick from 70 traits, including "easily impressed" and "kleptomaniac," to add some depth to your Sim's personality. There's a cool new function that lets you make movies online. And moving around is more seamless in this version. Walk your character from your home to a neighbor's and go inside - the computer can now process it all without interruption. Pick a job, make money, buy things. The Sims 3 even lets you pick a lifetime goal, say, of leading an evil empire...
...parties, the euroskeptic Conservatives, for instance, will be left pondering how many of its supporters could in the future migrate to UKIP - and how it might keep them from doing so. The triumph of the BNP (along with seats for far-right parties from the Netherlands and Austria) will add to concerns that the economic downturn is fueling a move to fascist parties in some corners of Europe...