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...There are some of us who believe that the problem of warming is as bad as the First and Second World Wars combined," Branson told TIME in a recent interview at the climate summit in Copenhagen. "It's that serious, and you know the key is carbon, [but] there's no war room coordinating the attack on carbon...
...Chicken Run - not to mention this year's Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog - should create in kids the demand that any movie aimed at them must be at least within shouting distance of those masterpieces. If the good doesn't drive out the bad, it should at least stir in young minds a healthy skepticism toward movie mediocrity - and zero tolerance for crap...
...mean the director, Betty Thomas, the Hill Street Blues actress who helmed one good movie (the Howard Stern Private Parts) before loading her résumé with the sort of dispiriting comedies (Doctor Dolittle, 28 Days, I Spy, John Tucker Must Die) that help give a bad name to the movies shown on airplanes. Instead, consider the stars who lend their voices to the Chipettes: Christina Applegate, Amy Poehler and Anna Faris, smart comediennes all. As for the movie's writers - Jon Vitti, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger - they've spent a decade or two creating clever words...
...effort was for many years the CIA's largest covert operation, until the agency funded the mujahedin against the Soviets in Afghanistan. In 1969, Richard Helms, director of the CIA, told President Richard Nixon that Vang Pao had 39,000 troops engaged in active fighting. But casualties were so bad, he wrote, that Vang Pao's forces were using teenagers as young as 13 to fill their lines. This massive effort was hidden from the American public for years. It became known as the secret war, and the Hmong mercenaries as the secret army...
...Supreme Court, accusing it of overstepping its role by lifting the amnesty on Zardari's corruption charges. A potentially destructive confrontation between the two is now feared. Meanwhile, the political opposition is slowly ratcheting up pressure on Zardari to step down, something he is no mood to do. The bad news for Pakistan is that, yet again, its rough-and-tumble politics may mean that not enough attention will be paid to defeating the terrorists who hit Karachi on Monday...