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...comic's inception in 1961 until his death in 1977. Since then Uderzo has continued producing the series on his own via the Editions Albert-René publishing company he founded in 1979 - a go-it-alone decision aimed at safeguarding the creativity and independence Asterix himself is famous for. (See pictures of some of the greatest ever animated movies...
...most of his prepared testimony, Gore ran through an abbreviated version of his famous Inconvenient Truth PowerPoint presentation on the threat of climate change - updated with new, increasingly scary data. He pointed out that the increase in global carbon emissions over the past few years is well above previous estimates from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, meaning that we are beginning to put ourselves on track for worst-case scenarios. He noted a sobering new paper published Jan. 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which indicated that even if we managed to stabilize...
...Perhaps - but what sets magazine editorship apart from almost every other profession is that its most famous practitioners are almost all women. It's the only industry, outside modeling, where females have higher profiles and are more influential than their male counterparts. So there's another reason there are so many fashion editors in movies: it's an easy shorthand for feminine power...
...where do female editors go with all that power? What's the career arc? During Wintour's time at Vogue, Tina Brown was editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. She was, arguably, just as famous. Ten years later, having written a best seller, Brown is editor of an upstart website. With an office that looks onto an alleyway and a dumpster. Grace Mirabella, Wintour's predecessor at Vogue, started her own magazine, which folded 11 years later. It's hard to think of one name-brand magazine editor who has maintained her prominence or transferred her influence...
Pawlowski, meanwhile, says he wouldn't be surprised to find the arsons are gang-related. He says he has seen an increase in graffiti using the names of famous gangs such as the Bloods and Crips in the past two years and has led community efforts to remove it. However, it is unclear whether this reflects real gang activity or simply wannabes. Either way, Pawlowski says, allowing the graffiti to remain simply perpetuates decay and emboldens whoever put it there...