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...Even as environmental groups roundly pooh-poohed the flight as a publicity stunt, Virgin and its partners stressed that percentages weren't the point. The event was, the businesses claim, meant merely as a demonstration. "What we're proving today is that biofuel can be used for a plane," Branson told reporters. "Two years ago, people said it was absolutely impossible." Among the fears: that biofuel would freeze before a plane reached cruising altitude, or that it would require massive and costly changes to the aircraft or fueling systems to work at all. Those prognosticators were proved wrong. The fuel...
...Director Travis's early claim to fame was the 2004 Omagh, a retelling of the massacre of 29 civilians in a Northern Island town a decade ago. That TV film's script was co-written by Paul Greengrass, and Travis has borrowed some of the jittery camerabatics that Greengrass applied as director to of United 93and the last two episodes of the Jason Bourne saga. You can easily spot Travis's attempt at docudrama bona fides from the gritty cinematography. All the 50-plus mid-level stars - Quaid, Hurt, Weaver, Bruce McGill - are shot (I mean photographed) so unflatteringly that...
...notion of constitutional rights, a process he said was still not finished. “We should embrace the constitutional reach of ‘we,’” said Moses, a former Harvard graduate student. “We need to make good on our claim of ‘we the people.’” Moses added that he saw Obama’s campaign—and the debate it has sparked over whether America is ready for a black president—as the continued expansion of the Constitution...
...industry whose demand has vastly outgrown its resources. Clips from finished films have the reel quality of cheap commercials on your local community access station; cuts from frame to frame are sloppy, the picture is grainy and the audio is poor. Several of the other Nollywood filmmakers interviewed claim that the revival of the VHS camera to shoot their movies was essential to the survival of the industry, because, in a country whose average income is less than $1 per day, there simply isn’t the money for big-budget films.Associate producer Aimee Corrigan explained that the industry?...
...Days earlier, Carlson said that today's U.S. Air Force "simply cannot fight and win against the fleet of airplanes that have been developed and are flying in India, China, and so forth," a claim questioned by many experts. But his view has been reinforced by the companies employing 25,000 workers in 44 states building the F-22 - the prime contractor is aerospace giant Lockheed Martin - and their allies in Congress. That is what is so insidious about these lists: once Congress gets a hold of them, they're used as pile drivers to pound extra billions into...