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Cities such as Port-au-Prince should be built better than they were before. The buildings should be constructed in adherence to strict building codes—resistance to hurricanes and earthquakes is a must. The creation of an extensive sanitation system, the implementation of an organized public transportation system, and investment in a reliable power grid that uses green energy sources like wind, solar, and geothermal will be crucial...

Author: By Dadu Mercier and Edad Mercier | Title: Haiti’s Rebirth | 1/26/2010 | See Source »

...second proposal contained a more specific list of actions, including the creation of a Climate Emergency Response Board to coordinate city action and change Cambridge’s green infrastructure. After some modification, the measure also met widespread approval, with 40 votes in favor and 11 opposed...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Citizens Debate Climate Plans | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...exciting as it sounds, but director Jon Amiel's main intent is to frame Darwin's authorship of one of the most important books of all time around the death of a child, Darwin's 10-year-old daughter Annie (Martha West). Between her loss and his grief, Creation is a doubleheader of misery and melancholy that serve mostly to make you look forward to the writing bits. After a bout of scarlet fever, Annie languished for weeks. She was apparently the light of Darwin's life, and the movie does not miss an opportunity to point out her charms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creation: The Origin of Darwin's Origin of Species | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...Creation is based on a book called Annie's Box (published in the U.S. as Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution), written by one of Darwin's descendants, Randal Keynes, and inspired by a box of keepsakes from Annie's short life, items carefully set aside by her parents, which Keynes found in the family archives. Darwin and his wife Emma (played by Jennifer Connelly, Bettany's offscreen wife) had 10 children in all. Several of them are featured in the film, though you'd be hard-pressed to identify them as anything beyond Neglected Son No. 1, Neglected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creation: The Origin of Darwin's Origin of Species | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...soon. We wait in dread for the climactic scene - the grief-gasm if you will - for the rest of the movie, and it's agonizing trying to figure out if she's about to fall into a pond or catch something from one of her father's breeding pigeons. Creation is an exercise in the maudlin that would try the emotional patience of even someone who can tear up at the right television commercial (guilty as charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creation: The Origin of Darwin's Origin of Species | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

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