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Gary Whitta's script, set 30 years after civilization screeched to a halt when a great "flash" (maybe a devastating bomb or the wrath of God) filled the sky, imagines a charred American Southwest littered with dead trees, debris, corpses - a landscape not even WALL-E could clean up. The desaturated color scheme makes the whole world look as if it were left outside to die, and it was. Marauding punks prey on solitary travelers for water, food and clothing. With all industrial and agricultural sectors in shambles, the fear-market system applies: survival of the meanest...
...Told Him ToThat moment lends Eli the aura of a divinity. Is he God, making a personal inspection of what humanity has done to his earth? Could be: Eli is the Semitic word for a supreme being. He says that after the big flash, a voice told him to take the Bible and go West, so he might be Brigham Young leading the Mormons to Utah, or any number of cult leaders who found acolytes in California. Eli could also be a jihadist, using a holy book as his moral cue to annihilate the infidels. He acknowledges that the Bible...
...That has raised the ire of certain black activists and politicians as the Census Bureau gears up to mail out its once-a-decade questionnaires. The controversy has been cast by many as an instance of a tone-deaf agency not keeping up with the times. In actuality, the flash point represents a much larger theme: the often contentious way the Census both reflects and forges our evolving understanding of race. (See the best pictures...
...agents in Afghanistan. The incident occurred in the city of Ghazni in July 2008, after she was detained by local police near one of the city's mosques on suspicion that she was a suicide bomber. At the time of her arrest, she allegedly had with her a flash drive with references to specific "cells" and "enemies" and various chemicals in cold-cream jars, including a quantity of sodium cyanide. Prosecutors say that the following day, as a contingent of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents prepared to question her at a nearby police station, Siddiqui grabbed an unsecured...
...Christine Lu, the digital strategy advisor for the national burger chain Fatburger, pushed stores to give secret menu deals to users who flash proof that they've checked in via Foursquare. "The challenge with any social-networking site is the single mom working in an office - what's in it for them?" Lu says. "If you can translate it into the mentality that this is saving you money, who wouldn't want...