Word: agee
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Does this mean Haneke is becoming a tiny bit softer in his old age? He doesn't see it that way - in fact, he rejects the notion that his films reflect his personality at all. "People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am," he says, a wry smile sneaking out from beneath his beard. "I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist." (Read a brief history of the Palme...
...promises his next project won't deviate much from his trademark nihilism. He starts shooting next summer what he describes through stifled laughs as "a film about the decomposition and the humiliation of the human body in old age." Sounds like vintage Haneke - no soppy happy ending in sight...
...regulating our climate. Forests store an estimated 300 billion tons of carbon, or the equivalent of 40 times the world's total annual greenhouse-gas emissions - emissions that cause global warming. Destroy the trees and you release that carbon into the atmosphere, putting the great challenge of our age - averting catastrophic climate change - beyond reach. Forest destruction accounts for 15% of global emissions by human activity, far outranking the total from vehicles and aircraft combined. Forests are disappearing so fast in Indonesia that, incredibly, this developing country ranks third in emissions behind industrial giants China and the U.S. Since...
...Wuling Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industry - are up some 40% this year, Xu says, with about 50 purchased each day. One big reason, Xu explains, is that his customers, and especially those who come in from the nearby countryside, don't worry as much about saving for their old age as they had in the past. "Now they find they have more money, to spend and enjoy life more, however they want to use it," Xu says. "From what I see, people are changing very dramatically...
...enough people to stop someone from naming it Hoosick Falls. Cassandra's brother Brian is very into video games and anime and is definitely going to be our choice for guardian once Laszlo turns 15. Her brother Ian and his wife Tricia just had a son exactly Laszlo's age, but they also live in a tiny, rural town. And they're vegan. While there's nothing wrong with being vegan, it means they don't eat meat. And talk about being vegan a lot. Though I think Laszlo will like all the animals in the kingdom...