Word: cropped
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...clout. It's particularly helpful for a Strindberg play about a destructive marriage, hardly a surefire draw. "If I've introduced the Gandalf audience to Strindberg," he says, "that's thrilling." YET GANDALF HAS GIVEN McKellen a kind of magic that is stronger than fortune or fame. The current crop of fantasy films has become a full-employment plan for the best older British stage actors, but when McKellen plays Gandalf, the mysteries of life and death seem concealed beneath the lines of that marvelously craggy face. And, as an actor who is very careful to choose only high-quality...
...with China's television regulators. Consider the fate of Hunan Media Group, once China's funkiest broadcaster. In the 1990s this studio in central Hunan province took advantage of a rule allowing provincial broadcasters to deliver one channel nationally across cable networks. Not content to just retransmit the local crop report, Hunan came up with a slate of all-new programs geared to popular (read: low-brow) tastes. Its leading show, Happy Camper, let celebrities and ordinary folk embarrass themselves by, for instance, dangling from 20-meter cords while tossing basketballs at a hoop. Hunan grew so successful that...
...Cambridge in 1941, then went on to do groundbreaking work on the molecular structure of coal, first in England and later in France, a country she vastly preferred to her homeland. She earned a reputation for meticulous lab work and a brusque manner. Words like difficult, bossy and impatient crop up frequently in the recollections of those who knew her. Prickly is a particular favorite...
...Shade-grown coffee is exactly what it says. Instead of clearing the forest, farmers plant the crop among the forest plants, thus saving the local ecosystem. Shade trees furnish habitats for birds, and the Atlanta Audubon Society has found that 90% fewer species are found in sun-grown coffee areas. Shade trees also protect coffee plants from harsh elements, and the birds that are attracted provide natural pest control, which reduces the need for synthetic pesticides. As a bonus, many coffee drinkers find shade-grown varieties less bitter than those grown...
...shipping Zambia the bargain-basement corn that nobody wanted—G.M. corn is more expensive for the U.S. to send than regular corn. If the farmers of Zambia grew it they would have to pay royalties every year to the companies that engineered the crop. At this point any self-respecting conspiracy theorist would be asking if this was a cynical ploy to get G.M. foods under the E.U.’s radar, and create a cash cow for the biotech business. And this is not an isolated incident either. Just this month, India refused a shipment...