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Business is getting right with the environment too. The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, based in Washington, is working with auto and oil giants including Ford, Chevron, Texaco and Shell to draft guidelines for incorporating biodiversity conservation into oil and gas exploration. And the center has helped Starbucks develop purchasing guidelines that reward coffee growers whose methods have the least impact on the environment. Says Nitin Desai, secretary-general of the Johannesburg summit: "We're hoping that partnerships--involving governments, corporations, philanthropies and NGOs--will increase the credibility of the commitment to sustainable development...
...laws, regulations or devices - rather, better enforcement of existing laws," says Wolfgang Hubner, director of the o.e.c.d.'s transport division in Paris. "The U.K., with roughly the same population as France, has decreased fatalities through tighter enforcement - which over time also produced a more generalized respect of road laws." Auto deaths per million last year were 57.6 in Britain, 84.9 in Germany and 137.7 in France...
...vineyards. But this scenic stretch of Route Départementale 61 could also be lined with grave markers and memorials to drivers like Francis Manzoni. One February afternoon, a local youth who'd been drinking attempted to pass another car on a curve, lost control and hit Manzoni's auto head on - killing him instantly. The accident was iconic of a plague tormenting the entire nation...
...Thug chic has come to movies in the extravagantly buff and tattooed torso of Vin Diesel. Looking like the spawn of Otto Preminger and Mike Myers' Dr. Evil, Diesel went from 0 to 60 in last year's cheapie auto-mania epic, The Fast and the Furious. Now he's back in an even more rickety star vehicle. Full of implausible chase scenes (Ever go skateboarding ahead of an avalanche?), director Rob Cohen's epic is pretty inept, while lacking the idiot intensity that makes for a classically bad movie. Basically a butch La Femme Nikita, XXX has extreme-sports...
...play games that create their own unique music. Eleven artists have been commissioned to produce related works. With such a wide brief, some areas, such as cinema, seem rather squeezed, but many go into fascinating depth. Making and marketing includes a storyboard for the gangland adventure Grand Theft Auto taken straight from from the studio wall, which leads to a consideration of story-telling. "Narrative in video games is very non-linear," says curator Conrad Bodman. "There are subplots that may not lead to anything, but you have to work them all out" to find out what you have...