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...awful lot of cinematic firepower for what is essentially a 40-min. boutique movie, and even Hanks has only so many favor chits to play. The reason he spends them on projects like this, he says, has less to do with his childhood love of space than with his lack of the temperament to pursue space as a career. "I took an observational astronomy course when I was in junior college," he says, "which essentially involved looking through a telescope. I loved it and aced it and then moved on to Astronomy 101, which was all math and theorems...
...sluggish response to the crisis of Hurricane Katrina was shameful [Sept. 12]. There seemed to be a lack of organization and little coordination among federal, state and local authorities. The Gulf Coast contains vital ports for oil and natural gas and should have been given a high priority in U.S. defense planning against terrorism. The government's unpreparedness makes me extremely skeptical of the effectiveness of the Department of Homeland Security. It certainly didn't seem to have made plans for evacuation and disaster management in this major urban area. The scale of the disaster may have been unprecedented...
...city without such basic needs as drinkable water and electricity and gas. Allen also noted that toxins are being released into the air as the city progressively dries out from nearly three weeks under water. One of the things that health officials worry about privately is the lack of hospitals to treat injuries by residents wielding chainsaws and breathing in generator fumes...
...problem is, there's no simple explanation for TV's laugh lack. "It just doesn't make sense," says Kevin Reilly, NBC's president of entertainment. "The feeling is that America needs to laugh now more than ever." And it does laugh--just not together. Viewers, especially younger ones, seem to be bored with laugh-track sitcoms. But the fresher shows--cable comedies, cartoons, even reality shows--often turn off less adventurous viewers. The key, it seems, is to find the Goldilaughs spot in between, to be original yet familiar...
Travia’s new ideas seem focused on dealing with these problems in a meaningful way. While there are some questions as to the efficacy of social-norm campaigns, the idea seems to strike at the root of the most significant problem: the lack of an open and honest dialogue. Knowing that 78 percent of college students consume zero to five drinks during a night of partying may not have exactly the effects Travia predicts, but at least it admits that drinking does happen...