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...entire film exists in another, nether, Never-land where standard narrative and visual decisions are dismissed as way too confining. The location of the Racers' home seems to be in idyllic suburban America, yet Speed's schoolteacher and classmates speak with English accents. The time, never specified, could be today but is emotionally the '50s or early '60s. Mom and Pops Racer's three sons - Rex, Speed and the youngest, Spritle (Paulie Litt) - are each separated by about 15 years. So just never mind that Goodman 55, Sarandon 61, are more likely to be Spritle's grandparents than his parents...
...Sachs, who also criticized the U.S. biofuels program, said biofuels compete with food for farming land and help push up food prices, hurting the world's poor worst of all. "We need to cut back significantly on our biofuels programs," he said. "They were understandable at a time of much lower food prices and larger food stocks but do not make sense now in a global food scarcity condition...
...Arabs would outnumber the Jews in so-called Greater Israel. Some of Israel's anxieties would vanish if Israelis reached peace with the Palestinians. But both groups are so bound up in their own sense of victimization--the Israelis over the Holocaust, the Palestinians over the loss of their land--that they are blind to the legitimate needs of the other. Palestinians speak of pushing the Israelis into the sea. Israelis speak of driving the Arabs into the desert sands. But the majority of sensible people on both sides know neither outcome is possible. Somehow they must agree to share...
...Israel marks its 60th birthday, its citizens would seem to have plenty to celebrate. Situated on a patch of stony land, democratic Israel has endured the ravages of war and terrorism and an assortment of enemies sworn to destroy it. Israelis have managed to revive Hebrew, a 4,000-year-old language, and turn it into a vibrant instrument of elegant novelists and growling rappers. In cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa, the high-tech industry has produced years of robust growth and fostered a culture of creativity and inventiveness that is the envy of the Middle East...
Sixty years since its birth, Israel still lives in peril and without peace. Israelis worry about the threat of a nuclear attack from Iran. They worry that Hizballah will pepper them with more missiles launched from southern Lebanon and that Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza will inevitably land in a crowded Negev school yard. And they worry that Palestinian suicide bombers will once again explode in the buses and cafès of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. "We used to think that every year we survived was a miracle, a gift," an Israeli friend confides gloomily, "but now all I think...