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...Disney movie arriving in multiplexes on April 22 features lots of animals - none of them cartoons. The ambitious new nature film called Earth chronicles a year in the life of the planet, opening in the dead of winter at the Arctic, with a mother polar bear peeking her snout out of the snow, and ending at the opposite pole, in the brief Antarctic summer amid a dance of humpback whales...
...material for young children - no actual killing is shown on film - and Earth is rated G. For a nature film, Earth also takes a notably G-rated stance on the subject of the environment. Climate change is mentioned a few times in passing - and we see a male polar bear in northern Norway struggling with melting sea ice - but there is no real message or explanation of it here. Instead of doom, the overall mood is joy, the renewal that comes with rain and sun and summer. Never mind that there's less rain and hotter summers - this film...
...Blier insisted that the award rightfully honors Cotter’s contributions to the art world. “It says that the arts he covers are worthy of and indeed demand a sort of intellectual rigor and a provocative in-depth analysis that he brings to bear on them,” she said...
...Clinton administrations (but especially Clinton’s) recklessly pushed to expand home ownership, fuelling the bubble in housing prices and its collapse. Former President Bush’s failure to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac permitted the crisis in subprime mortgages to build, though congressional Democrats bear the lion’s share of blame for their obstructionism: They opposed a Bush administration proposal for greater regulation, even though Fannie and Freddie’s own executives favored the change. The lack of broad oversight in financial markets led investors to rely too heavily on faulty investment ratings...
...After spending a decade on Seattle’s City Council, this fellowship will allow him to bring his experience with the realities of political process to bear on his passion for sustainability on a much larger scale,” said Susanna Williams, who was the creator of Steinbrueck’s Facebook fan group. “In return, he will share his insights and perspective with Seattle, helping us grow in more sustainable directions...