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...sugarcane) and biodiesel (made from soybean or palm oil) burn cleaner and produce less greenhouse gas than fossil fuels do, critics warn that biofuels have their own dark side. Cuba's Fidel Castro even called powering cars with food "sinister" policy, but here's a more level-headed breakdown of the impact and limitations of farming for fuel...
...exactly Stephen King when it comes to output.” In the meantime, Wilson is concentrating on his role in “Vacancy.” The movie follows a soon to be divorced couple, Wilson and Beckinsale, whose car breakdown forces them to visit a seedy motel (surprise?). Chaos—of the crawling through tunnels and smashing mirrors variety—naturally ensues. “I’ve done scenes that were emotional, but I’ve never done anything with this kind of intensity,” says Wilson...
...hide them in swaths of fabric normally big enough to hide small elephants. These are all important facts. As Harvard students, however, we are intimately familiar with extremes. I can’t even count the times I’ve seen a perfectly happy individual have a nervous breakdown caused by getting a B+ in a core. We reside in a group of mentally mercurial, sensitive fools. Which is why I feel I feel that Harvard is especially well suited for adopting the wide-leg pants trend with ease: because if we can’t embrace the extremes...
What followed was a courtroom drama worthy of the Jerry Springer Show, culminating in Judge Seidlin’s emotional breakdown while reading his ruling. “I want her buried with her son, in the Bahamas. I want them to be together,” he sobbed, referring to Smith’s adult son who died last year...
...Titus Andronicus,” one of Shakespeare’s earlier plays, depicts the mental and emotional breakdown of Titus, a Roman war hero whose stubborn adherence to Roman tradition sparks numerous acts of merciless cruelty and revenge against his family to the point of their complete destruction...