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...Less a traditional crime film than an as-told-to social document, Gomorrah reveals the reach of a business that has poisoned an entire region; for Camorra is both a crime syndicate and one of the nation's largest employers - southern Italy's own stimulus package. Where else in a sluggish economy can a young man find work? (In the movie, a college graduate, lured into a job supervising the dumping of toxic waste, decides to quit the business. His padrone, disgusted, spells out what awaits him: "Go make pizzas.") When everyone in town is either a gangster...
...different species have evolved from common ancestors. But DNA has also jumped from one species to another - turning parts of the tree of life into a web Humans evolved from apes in Africa Evidence from DNA indicates that chimpanzees and bonobos are the closest living relatives to humans. Fossils document the course of human evolution in Africa from apelike ancestors over the past 7 million years Natural selection is a powerful force driving evolution Natural selection's fingerprints can be detected in the human genome. But many mutations have spread thanks to pure chance (a process known as genetic drift...
...then capable of bringing to life “visual, evocative qualities” in her subjects through artistic media. Thus she can illuminate aspects of an object in ways different from those achieved through scientific methodology.“I haven’t gone out to document what is just there,” Purcell says. “I photograph as an artist.”Her series is one of many examples that suggest the potential discourse between the arts and the sciences.Similarly, Amanda Means uses her photographs to aestheticize subject matter generally thought to reside...
...saga really done? Questions about the tanks' ownership arose shortly after the pirates seized the Faina on Sept. 25. The BBC published a document that it claimed was the Faina's freight manifest. The contract number on the manifest includes the initials "MOD/GOSS" - initials which some experts claimed stand for Ministry of Defense/Government of South Sudan. (See pictures of Somalia's face of modern piracy...
...known that feeder funds such as Fairfield Greenwich, Ascot Partners and Chais Investments, which are listed in the court document, had thousands of individual investors who placed billions into Madoff's Ponzi. These victims are not part of the list...