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...Accepting this indeterminacy will be a real challenge. For it is possible to assemble the facts of what China is doing into different narratives. When a research institute in Sichuan publishes a piece on vulnerabilities in the U.S. electrical grid, for example, is it just academic curiosity or something darker? Is China's accumulation of U.S. debt a temporary quirk of the global economy or an expression of the ancient Chinese strategy of shangwu chouti - let your enemy get on the roof, then take the ladder away? It's very hard to know. Chance and the future and what...
Occasionally the album does seem to hint at genuinely darker subject matter, but these attempts feel rather half-hearted. “How Long” is a great example: “So give it up for anger / It makes us strong,” the song begins. The song’s introduction, set amidst deeper tones and more ominous beats raises expectations of a darker mood, but the pace of the song changes abruptly and resumes the album’s positivity. Similarly, “I Saw It” begins with the lyrics...
...arrested for shoplifting and that her father didn’t actually commit the crime he was accused of feels entirely anticlimactic. It constantly feels like the film takes the easy way out, resolving conflicts by claiming they were never serious to begin with. The film never embraces the darker emotional toll that one would expect of such a supposedly dysfunctional family...
Although this film makes a valiant attempt to depict a moving story of the strength of family bonds, “The Last Song” overshoots the emotional factor by miles. By shying away from the darker tone required of the subject matter, the film is nothing but inert...
...Cost of a Warming Arctic" study, funded by the Pew Environment Group, assessed trends in the Arctic's cooling mechanisms and examined the financial consequences. The research team looked at the rate at which surfaces change from white ice and snow to ocean or exposed tundra, since darker surfaces absorb, rather than reflect, solar heat. According to the report, this shift and the increased methane emissions linked with melting permafrost currently slap us with annual losses in the range of $61 billion to $371 "resulting from such changes as heat waves and flooding." But the anticipated monetary fallout described...