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Surveying over 350 people—ranging from plastic surgeons to facially disfigured patients—Barker said that his research has determined that most people are in favor of the procedures, despite their high-risk nature...
...billion federal water preservation bill that Congress passed last week, which includes almost $2 billion more for Everglades restoration. (Bush feels the measure is too expensive.) Add to that the Bush Administration's reputation - from global warming to stem cell research - for ignoring if not rewriting science in favor of its conservative and pro-business agenda, and it's no surprise that Democrats and environmentalists are so upset...
...next 14 years Antonioni made only two fiction features: the bleak and glorious Zabriskie Point and the meandering Passenger, with its one climactic sequence of nearly unrivaled technical virtuosity. He didn't fall out of critical or popular favor so much as he gracefully receded from view, like Thomas at the end of Blowup. By the late '70s the movie environment had changed, and not for the better. Hollywood was reluctant to finance the chancy projects of a double-domed European of Social Security age, when kids in L.A. could bring in hundreds of millions with their clever toy movies...
...with handles) in contrast to 2.2˘ per plastic bag. Given the downside to both paper and plastic, perhaps that $1,720 tote isn't so outrageous. "Everyone has framed the debate incorrectly," says Shropshire. "It's not paper vs. plastic. It's about getting rid of plastic in favor of recycled paper or reusable bags...
Politicians, too, are under pressure to recant anything nice they may have said about the Iraq war--or, if they were Senators at the time, to apologize for their votes in favor. Some, like John Edwards, have done so. But one important voice was as wrong as any of them and now is among the most censorious about the way things have turned out. Yet this voice has never acknowledged its previous errors. In fact, no one expects it to do so, even though it is more responsible than any pundit for U.S. policy in Iraq. This is the voice...