Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, recently nominated for a foreign-language-film Oscar, is serene, shimmering and stripped of melodrama. Set in two ominously tranquil periods -- 1951, a few years before the French collapse at Dien Bien Phu, and 1961, just before the U.S. buildup -- Green Papaya is seemingly apolitical. Yet in Tran's family drama one can see a society torn between East and West, passivity and passion, duty and will, ancient rites and modern desires...
...George wrote his first cover, on inefficiency in America. Twenty-one years later, he wrote his 100th, on the disintegration of the Soviet Union. At cover length, he has made sense of the secret sale of arms to Iran, the Los Angeles riots and the Reagan-era U.S. military buildup, among other subjects. So varied is his repertoire that this week's issue also includes his one-page story on Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan...
...PRISON BUILDUP HAS NOT come cheaply. The average annual cost per inmate is now $23,500. The average cost per bed in maximum-security facilities is $74,862. "You don't lock them up and throw away the key," says Howard Peters, Illinois' director of corrections. "You lock them up and spend thousands of dollars on them...
...apparently slows pumps of kidney cells, causing the sodium buildup which characterizes high blood pressure...
...global warming seared its way into public consciousness during the record-breaking heat wave of 1988, environmentalists have been pushing governments to take action. Auto engines, power plants and landfills spew out carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping gases by the ton. Left unchecked, many scientists believe, the buildup in the atmosphere could create the greenhouse effect, boosting temperatures and changing weather patterns in unpredictable, probably destructive ways. At last year's Rio Earth Summit, world leaders agreed that emissions of greenhouse gases should be curbed, but at the insistence of the U.S., the resulting treaty contained no firm...