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...with facts until the full force of what we've done to the planet becomes unmistakable. What really sets Eaarth apart from other green books is McKibben's prescription for survival. This won't be just a matter of replacing a few lightbulbs; McKibben is calling for a more local existence lived "lightly, carefully, gently." It's a future unimaginable to most of us--but it may be the only way to survive...
...failure, and it's stinking up my office." Sylvester, the cheerleading coach on Fox's smash teen-musical show, Glee, is a tyrant in a tracksuit: she claims to have had her tear ducts removed, and in one episode from the show's first season, she appears on local TV to advocate corporal punishment for kids. ("Yes, we cane!") But Sylvester saves her fiercest bile for the members of McKinley High's Glee club, New Directions. "I will go to the animal shelter and get you a kitty cat," she tells their chipper coach, Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison). "I will...
...doubt that she'd make it. That took some doing, considering that by 1999 she was 38 and had spent seven years in L.A. on a "relentless" but only marginally fruitful quest for comedy, acting and singing gigs. But that spring, she ran into Christopher Guest in a local restaurant; the pair had worked together six months earlier on a Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercial. He asked her to drop by his office, she recalls, and by the end of the day, Lynch was cast in Best in Show. The film - a loose, often improvised look at the odd world...
...Catholic Church released guidelines on April 12 instructing church officials to notify local police about cases in which sexual abuse is suspected. Posted on the Vatican's website, the rules instruct bishops to follow "civil law concerning reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities." The church claims this has long been its policy, though it was never explicitly documented. Critics say the measure--a suggestion, not a requirement--is not strong enough...
Bruderlein explained that, along with accounting statistics, international health funding carries with it necessary standards of accountability and productivity that may not be coming from the local populations, especially in non-democratic countries...