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...song “Gunz Come Out” (“Heat”), and the sex song “Candy Shop” (“P.I.M.P.”). Even the album cover, which shows a shirtless 50 with gleaming muscles and a diamond-encrusted cross around his neck, looks just like the Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ cover. But who can really blame 50 for sticking to the formula that helped him move nearly 1 million units of Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ in the first week and propelled...
...Bull Durham featuring members of the film’s cast and crew. The event was cancelled when Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey declared that recent remarks by Robbins and Sarandon—who were busy advocating for peace 15 years after starring in the minor-league diamond drama—“ultimately could put our troops in even more danger.” (Robbins hit back at the time, suggesting that Petroskey belonged with “the cowards and ideologues in a hall of infamy and shame...
...addition to the Charles, the Ritz-Carlton, the Nine Zero, the Eliot, and the Westin all received a four-diamond rating from the Automobile Association of America this year; the Four Seasons received the only five-diamond rating in Massachusetts...
Collapse also surveys modern societies that appear to Diamond to be at risk. Among them are China, where 300,000 people a year die from air pollution, and Montana, which is grappling with the economic and environmental ravages of logging and mining. There are success stories too, such as Iceland, which bounced back from severe environmental damage (in an environment that was no picnic to begin with) through tough-minded communal decision making...
...devastation, there are hopeful messages in Collapse. In most cases, the problems those extinct peoples faced weren't insoluble; they just couldn't spot the difficulties in time, whether because of cultural blind spots, scientific ignorance or sheer pigheadedness. "We don't need new technologies to solve our problems," Diamond writes, "we 'just' need the political will to apply solutions already available. Of course," he adds, "that's a big 'just.'" With Diamond's help, maybe we'll learn to see our own problems a little more clearly--before we chop down that last palm tree...