Word: deeps
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...which increasingly believes that climate change is real and worries about it, but which rarely ranks it as a high priority. A 2007 survey by the U.N. Development Programme found that 54% of Americans advocate taking a "wait and see" approach to climate-change action - holding off on the deep and rapid cuts in global warming that would immediately impact their lives. (And it's not just SUV-driving Americans who take this position - similar majorities were found in Russia, China and India.) As a result, we have our current dilemma: a steady drumbeat of scientific evidence of global warming...
...into an Aldi store here. After arriving from Russia 16 years ago, Chernova regularly shopped at conventional supermarkets like Dominick's and Jewel, but no more. "They're too expensive," Chernova says, clutching her shopping list with one hand. Now she visits Aldi once a week, drawn by the deep discounter's $2.69 1-gal. jugs of milk and 33-cent boxes of salt. "I've got to save my pennies," she says, heading into the store. Chernova certainly isn't alone...
...Deep Throat millions never got to Damiano - how does a director put muscle on the Mafia? - but it did allow him to pursue his dream of being a respected film auteur, though still in hardcore. Most directors with a left-field mega-hit would instantly crank out another picture in the same genre. Not Damiano. He used his cash, and cachet, from his silly porno comedy to make a super-serioso drama: Devil in Miss Jones. And this time under his own name. Reading the script, Reems told his friend: "Gerry, it's a steal. This is No Exit...
...Damiano said that after the success of Deep Throat, "If people wanted to interview me because I was a porno filmmaker, I just was not interested in talking to them." There had been gifted directors - Radley Metzger, Russ Meyer - making softcore in the '60s, but Damiano had higher ambitions. He wanted to be Ingmar F---in' Bergman...
...reason for Monday's market plummet is little changed from that behind the last few weeks of red ink: Growing certainty that the world is headed into a deep, and probably long, recession. The pessimism is fuelled by statistics showing consumer spending and industrial production falling off in many major economies, and especially...