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...encourage utilities, businesses and industries to shift to natural gas, then fail to ensure sufficient supplies of the fuel. The lawmakers refuse to make the tough choices on energy supplies and consumption, while they cater to the demands of campaign contributors and special interests. Worst of all, when politicians craft a conservation program that actually works, they abandon it. As a result, after three decades and dozens of energy bills, Congress has helped position Americans so they may be closer to an energy crisis than at any time since the oil shocks of the 1970s. And this time...
...What we tried to do is not only look at the story itself, but use the story as a way of exploring the larger philosophical question of how historians approach their craft; how the decisions that they make affect how we perceive the past, and how any of us can really know what happens in the past,” said co-producer Melissa Banta...
...land of the low-budget parable, with big ideas and crude special effects. But the film is well acted (especially by Brendan Gleeson as a friendly, flinty dad). And Boyle's ingenuity with the camera gives this fraught journey plenty of menace and pizazz. The movie's craft makes the dread of a killer virus contagious: viewers may feel they have come down with a case of secondhand SARS or sympathetic monkeypox...
...social matters, Europeans every day are becoming more "European" and less hidebound by national traditions--they worship the same sports stars, they drink the same wines, they dance to the same electronic beats, they vacation on the same beaches. Things go wrong only when attempts are made to craft European institutions and a European identity from the top down; a recent poll in Spain found that only 1% of respondents had any idea what the convention on a European constitution was meant to be doing...
...social matters, Europeans every day are becoming more "European" and less hidebound by national traditions - they worship the same sports stars, they drink the same wines, they dance to the same electronic beats, they vacation on the same beaches. Things go wrong only when attempts are made to craft European institutions and a European identity from the top down; a recent poll in Spain found that only 1% of respondents had any idea what the convention on a European constitution was meant to be doing...