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However, the mystical, supernatural feats depicted in the grossly popular “Twilight” movies, based on Stephanie Meyer’s novels, can be attributed to one equation that is applied each time a digital effect is added to a film...
Krugman similarly described the Obama administration’s stimulus as “halfhearted,” explaining that the mere existence of a large government and the move to rescue the financial sector each had more of a stabilizing effect on the economy than the stimulus itself...
Presenters talked about water usage reduction and the burgeoning problem of water scarcity, as well as the effect of climate change on growing sea levels and how to protect cities from potential flooding...
Other issues brought up at the meeting included how to effect policy change with regards to efficient water management and climate change when existing policies are in conflict...
...greater role in governing the global economy. Its model of state-driven capitalism, having weathered the storm, has won widespread praise (as well as criticism), and slowly Chinese leaders have taken note. Now there are signs that all the talk of the Chinese miracle has started to have an effect - and not a good one. (See TIME's special report on Davos...