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...meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless cap were not enough to reject the “Clean Skies” initiative, there is also a clause in the bill that allows a system of “credits?? so that older, pollution-heavy plants can purchase “pollution credits?? from newer, low-emission plants. This proposal is, quite simply, conservative market capitalism gone horribly wrong. It would allow outdated (and in many cases, sorely inefficient) power plants to pollute more merely because they...
Every week, the Boston Phoenix runs an ad from the “Egg Donor Program” that offers $5,000 “plus karma credits?? to females willing to donate their eggs. Such advertisements, and others that specify the desirability of Ivy League ovaries, inspired Cook’s most recent true-to-life medical thriller Shock, published in August 2001. Cook tackles the infertility industry and its unregulated gray areas—a perfect setting for intrigue, horror and probing social commentary. “There is an active kind of search for women...
...Mothman Prophecies begins with some intriguing title credits??unfortunately, it pretty much rolls downhill from there. The film stars Richard Gere (who seems to have reached the pinnacle of his acting career with Robert Altman’s sorely underrated Dr. T and the Women) as John Klein, a star reporter for The Washington Post who loses his wife (Debra Messing) in a car accident that may or may not have been predicted by a mysterious Mothman. A certain spark, courtesy of director Mark Pellington, energizes these opening scenes: the car accident itself is well-staged and slightly...
...Update,” were the hallmarks of the show’s millennial renaissance. There have been small changes—American flag lapel pins for the “Update” anchors, flag backgrounds on the interstitial hosts’ portraits, a flag in the opening credits??but they, as reminders of how the U.S. has changed, only underline how little SNL’s humor...