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...ability is prominentlyshowcased in independent director IraSachs’ new film, “Married Life,” in whichhe plays Harry Allen, a gentle and romanticman who decides that the only way toleave his wife without breaking her heartis to murder her.“Cooper can disappear into a role andbecome the role, but there is also a historyof identification that people have withhim which also makes him a star, makeshim pop,” Sachs said in an interviewwith The Crimson, at which Cooper wasalso present. Cooper remained reservedthroughout the interview, belying his statusas...
...couple of billion dollars a year, compared with the unknowable cost of decarbonizing the entire world. But the drawbacks are serious. Worsening air pollution is a risk. We'd have to keep geoengineering indefinitely to balance out continued greenhouse-gas emissions, and the motivation to decarbonize might disappear if we believed we had an insurance policy. And those are just the consequences we know about. But the truth is, we're already performing an unauthorized experiment on our climate by adding billions of tons of man-made carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Unless the geopolitics of global warming change soon...
Maxine Tuerk, who is part of a local group that opposes rural "cluster houses" like the ones torched on Monday, said that if all such developments were to disappear from Snohomish County, the fast-growing area that contains the crime scene, "it wouldn't bother me one bit - that's exactly what we're working for." Tuerk, a 75-year-old retired real estate broker who lives on a quiet 20-acre parcel in a wooded valley outside the city of Snohomish, added that she does not condone the tactic of burning down new homes to protect the environment...
...family when the 51-year-old money manager from Coral Springs, Fla., spent five years and a million dollars building a home theater. His setup includes 14 speakers, 16 amplifiers and 400 amps of current--more power than entire homes consume. "The system makes the speakers and walls disappear," says Messer. "You could get seasick watching Master and Commander in my theater...
...religion are), we would certainly see a decline in the blindly cruel homophobia of American youth. The death of a 15-year-old in the name of homophobia is an issue that transcends the objections of the religious right. Refusing to discuss homosexuality with children does not make homosexuality disappear. Rather, it makes the issue shadowy, frightening, and more salient than ever to the most impressionable members of American society...