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...strange weather was a manifestation of a global phenomenon that may one day end life on earth as we know it. Perhaps it wasn’t. Either way, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of casual indifference to civilization’s impending doom. A beautiful day in the middle of January is like a baby lion: it may become dangerous, but for now it’s just lots of fun. At the moment, global warming doesn’t seem so bad. If this warm streak keeps up, it will dramatically improve...
Could such a "great drain" happen again, sucking liquidity out of the international financial system? Many experts would dismiss the idea as mere doom mongering. A full-scale war, they say, is one of those "10-sigma" (10 standard deviation) events that are so rare they lie outside the domain of risk management. Like an asteroid hitting the earth or a global influenza pandemic, a really big war belongs in the realm of uncertainty. You just can't price...
This sprawling social drama has dozens of characters and, really, only one--Baltimore, Md. The fourth, finest and most heartbreaking season focused on four inner-city schoolboys, serenaded by the drug trade, failed by every institution meant to protect them and facing choices that will make or doom them for life. Meanwhile, it expanded on the show's novelistic tapestry of cops, politicos, junkies, bureaucrats, ministers and hustlers. No other TV show has ever loved a city so well, damned it so passionately or sung it so searingly...
...list producers (MF Doom, Madlib) as well as lesser-knowns (Fantom of the Beats), provide most of the songs on “More Fish” with hearty, soulful beats. Samples of classic soul tracks have always been fertile backgrounds for Ghost, and this album shows no exceptions. One standout here is the use of Michael Jackson’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” on “Street Opera.” But that’s not to say the album has only one sound; other tracks like...
...Iraqis caught between the extremes, however, the report will simply add to the sense of impending doom...