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...Martin. Along with a stellar cast and soundtrack, the film tells the semi-true story of Chess’s famed Chicago record label and the struggle of introducing the music of its black artists to the mainstream. Leonard Chess, played by Adrien Brody, is the not-so-typical lower-middle class white man who takes the plunge into the music industry with the sole purpose of recording the colloquial black man’s blues. Brody is magnificent in the role, portraying a man determined to flaunt his success with a high-profile lifestyle, buying his friends new houses...
...public pressure has grown to reduce energy use and carbon emissions--and in general to tread more lightly on the environment--companies in these industries have poured money into R&D efforts. Much of the work has focused on internal processes, especially on the critical task of how to lower emissions during manufacturing. But in their labs, scientists have also been playing with the materials themselves, swapping around molecules and gazing at atomic structures through electron microscopes in the hunt for new, "greener" variations. The idea is to improve the entire life cycle of the product--not just...
...would prefer to keep it out of government hands, since “50 pairs of new Nike Airs ain’t cheap.” As he puts it, he “ain’t tryna give back,” and he favors the lower income tax rates implemented by a supply-side economics model. Religion Fear God: Messianism and Mortality Primary source: Tha Carter III Prospectus: Is Weezy God or man? “Young God in the buildin’ / Bout to start a religion,” he proclaims. Yet he?...
...voters gossip about everything from this decision to the breed of the coming presidential puppy, the woeful state of public education in America persists. American children routinely score lower than students in comparable countries in basic math and reading skills. Obama himself has stated, “the question is whether or not ordinary parents, who can’t work the system, are able to get their kids into a decent school.” Yet he chose to send his kids to private school instead of personally supporting the public-school system. Unlike the Clintons, the Obamas didn?...
...crisis to mobilize us is a luxury we have never been able to afford. Infrastructure decays slowly, and yet roads erode, bridges collapse, and levees fail. Some problems have existed so long that we forget there is any alternative until the Europeans figure it out first: universal health care, lower teenage pregnancy, access to higher education. Some, like the national debt, have become so large that successive administrations have simply passed them on and hoped they explode on someone else’s watch...