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...Your blog has been singled out recently as having some of the best reader feedback of any blog on the web. But only a fraction of your posts have had to do with movies - many dealing with larger issues of metaphysics, philosophy, politics and the media industry. Given all the film writing you do on a weekly basis, how do you make the time to write on all these other topics...
...class, because there were only eight of us in the class. I always had some crap ready to spit out. After I gave my spiel, I looked back at Katie. She was looking at me. I instantly darted my eyes downward. But they met…for that fraction of a second…they met. The Big Bang. In that fraction of a second, my universe erupted in fireworks, painting my vision with brilliant reds and purples. My week was made.When school let out, I ran the mile back home. I would’ve skipped home this wonderful...
...government report, released in February, China's Ministry of Health also listed 264,302 diagnosed HIV cases across the nation - nearly double the number in 2005. A lot of that increase is likely due to increased reporting and testing, but UNAIDS still cautions that the statistics reflect only a fraction of disease's real impact. At the end of 2007, the organization says some 700,000 people were still living with HIV in China. Of those, roughly 85,000 are believed to have developed AIDS. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...really that simple? Afghans like Khan say only a small fraction of the insurgency consists of hardened jihadis willing to fight to the death; the rest are ordinary, poor villagers who simply haven't been given a better option. Khan estimates that the insurgents earn from $100 to $200 a month, money that comes from the illegal trade in lumber. Similarly, analysts in Afghanistan's south, where U.S. and coalition forces are fighting an insurgency funded by the opium trade, argue that the U.S. policy of poppy eradication has only fueled the fighting by eliminating income without providing an alternative...
...April 7 news article “Princeton Forecasts Endowment Drop” incorrectly implied that Harvard’s payout as a fraction of its endowment would decrease next fiscal year. In fact, that fraction will likely increase due to the projected 30 percent decline in Harvard’s endowment...