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...young people, it taps into the questions of what you do when you're in school, or when you leave college, what do you do with your life? There is a sense of adventure there." It helps that the film never resorts to tub thumping. Salles doesn't explicitly lay blame for the social conditions they come across; instead he fills the screen with the real people that his actors, retracing Guevara's and Granado's steps, met and spoke with: dispossessed farmers, poor miners, homeless families and lepers. The stark black-and-white portraits show a population strong with...
Jane B. Griffith, acting deputy director at the National Library of Medicine, which was responsible for the development and implementation of ClinicalTrials.gov, said the program’s innovation lay in its comprehensive overview of available clinical trials...
...John R. Edwards, D-N.C., can lay claim to many occupations: politician, trial lawyer, Democratic vice presidential nominee...
...1960s—this was a convention that couldn’t quite decide what it wanted to be. Speakers who must have been dying for a chance to lace into the current administration’s moral bankruptcy and pragmatic failures were reportedly told to lay off the Bush-bashing for fear of alienating those precious swingers. And so this week inhabited an odd political twilight zone: an opposition party seeking to rescue the nation midway through what seems the worst eight years of misgovernance in memory, the Dems forced themselves to put on a happy face...
...surveying a potential mine site near Ninety Mile in 1894 - two years after Bayley and Ford struck gold in Coolgardie, 150 km to the south - he and his party ran out of water. "We followed the line of the reef to the top of the rise, nuggets and quartz lay everywhere," he reportedly said. "The place was literally saturated with the metal." But the town that briefly prospered in his wake (mining had all but ceased by 1910), today seems like another mirage on Lake Ballard. Surveying an otherwise featureless horizon of red earth and mulga scrub from the town...