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LOST SEASON 2 DOWN THE hatch! What began as a sci-fi Survivor grew into a paranoid detective game and an exploration of the limits of reason and faith. As the castaways find what's inside a bunker (a psych experiment, a doomsday computer and a lot of 1980s furniture), their world expands. Joining them are a priest (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), an ex-cop (Michelle Rodriguez) and scary "Others" who don't like sharing their island. This detail-packed drama is worth watching for the first time, or for the second, with a finger on the PAUSE and REWIND buttons...
...remains a matter of debate among economists. No less a sage than Alan Greenspan started warning of "froth" in the market in May 2005--and the Fed has raised interest rates 17 times, at least partly to dampen speculative housing activity. Yet the party outlasted several years' worth of doomsday predictions. And for every bubble guy, there's one who thinks prices overall are about right, given mortgage rates that are still low by historic standards and other measures of affordability. "My view is that the run-up of home prices has been driven by the fundamentals," says Dick Peach...
...shot, and plenty of low-angle shots. Alton pushed these tenets further than most. He shot even the sitting figures from below, with the tops of rooms pressing down on them; he loved ceiling shots more than Japanese tourists in the Sistine Chapel. This perspective not only enhanced a doomsday mood, it kept the costs down on low-budget productions. According to Joe Cohn, his boss at MGM, Alton "saved a lot of time by lighting only from the floor...
Ramzi Yousef plotted to release the gas into the ventilation system of the World Trade Center prior to bombing the place in 1993 and couldn't quite manage it. The famous chemical attack by the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo on the Tokyo subway in March 1995 - the release of sarin gas that killed 12 people and sent about 5,000 to area hospitals - was followed, two months later, by an attempted cyanide gas attack by cult members. A small fire, set in a Tokyo restroom that ventilated onto a subway platform, was designed to disperse the gas and was extinguished...
...declared a moratorium on nuclear testing in August 1985. Nye County authorities arrested 438 people, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Antiwar Activist Daniel Ellsberg, Actor Martin Sheen and Singer Kris Kristofferson, for trespassing on Department of Energy property. Said Sagan of the testing program: "We've built a kind of doomsday machine, which threatens certain global civilizations and possibly even the human species...