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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Final Destination” movie and have a good time; for a little more, you can get video games in which you can deal drugs and kill prostitutes. We can sign up for breaking news updates on our cell phones, so we never miss a car chase or a police standoff.To say that Americans have become desensitized in the last 30 years is a cliché, but it’s true. This therefore raises the question: does the footage of caskets being pulled from cargo jets have the same effect that it once did? It will always...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Desensitized American Psyche | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...years older than the high schoolers of “Superbad,” they still binge drink until they puke, and there is little to distinguish Eisenberg’s awkward and soft-spoken virgin from that of Michael Cera (other than the fact that Eisenberg has a car to drunkenly drive into the neighbor’s hedge). When Mottola presents a 22-year-old who expects an expensive summer vacation and four years of graduate school on his parent’s dime while he gets high and drunk daily, it is easier to feel compassion...

Author: By William P. Hennrikus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adventureland | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...disappoint. West is the only figure who appears more than once in the film, and his musings are dispersed throughout. “I’m a jazz man in the world of ideas,” he says, sitting in the back seat of a car driving through New York City, his astounding breadth of knowledge and poetic name-dropping engaging, if not inspiring. Žižek stands in front of a garbage dump wearing a bright orange vest, excitedly ranting about ecology in a counter-intuitive way. “We must find poetry?...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Examined Life | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Morabito used his car's two-way radio to notify emergency services and then did what he did best: shot a picture. The result--a black-and-white rendering of J.D. Thompson resuscitating and eventually saving the life of apprentice lineman R.G. Champion, 29--was reproduced in newspapers around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocco Morabito | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...car-jackings, death threats and assaults continue to mount, organizations such as Oxfam and Médicins Sans Frontières have scrambled to tighten their security operations in dangerous missions, by corralling their staff into guarded complexes ringed with barbed wire, for example, and pooling intelligence with other humanitarian groups. Still, the new tactics offer no guarantees against well-armed foes. "The attacks have much more to do with the aid workers' status, rather than because they have assets or cash on hand," says Adele Harmer, research associate for the Humanitarian Policy Group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report: Attacks on Aid Workers on the Rise | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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