Word: developable
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...Gist: Scholars tend to lionize directors who develop groundbreaking styles or who come to dominate and define a genre - men like Hitchcock, Welles, Hawks and Ford. But what of the filmmaker who didn't try to stick out so much as fit in; the man-for-hire who could saddle up to any studio assignment - even a work in progress - and mold it to perfection? In Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, Baltimore Sun film critic Michael Sragow argues that Fleming - who directed The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind - was such a man, denied his rightful place...
...health-care systems into the federal system in exchange for an equity investment that--as journalist Thomas Friedman has suggested--requires the hybridization of their entire fleet. The federal system includes several large health-care units. Why not take Detroit's health-care needs off the automakers' hands and develop a single-payer system before rolling it out on a national scale? Not having to worry about the medical needs of personnel would make Detroit automakers better able to compete with other companies. Matthew Ernst, OCEAN ISLE BEACH...
...last-minute laws before leaving the White House, but George W. Bush's final agenda is angering environmentalists. Critics say these "midnight regulations"--Bush is pushing through a record number of them--have consequences that will not be easily reversed. The new laws would allow: ? Federal agencies to develop land without scientific oversight ? Farms to dump waste into nearby waterways ? Weaker standards for safe drinking water ? Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and oil drilling in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming ? Increased emissions for coal-fired stations ? Loaded, concealed firearms in national parks...
...part of his social studies tutorial final project, Joshua J. Nuni ’10 brought nearly 200 people who worked for the Obama campaign to the Kennedy School last night to discuss how to preserve the grassroots movement that developed over the course of the two-year election process. Nuni’s conference—called Organizing for Change—sought to “digest the experience of working on the Obama campaign,” as well as to “talk about what’s next,” Nuni said. Social...
...Born in Miami in 1955 to two professor parents, Browner grew up hiking in Florida's Everglades and credits that experience with helping her develop a close connection to the natural world...