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...global warming to be avoided, if we can come together globally, and projects like Steger's can only help. But the truth is that for the Arctic, at least, the sheer momentum of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere means that profound climatic change is virtually unavoidable, no matter what we do. "Within a decade or less, it's going to be impossible to reach the North Pole," says Steger. "If we're not taking action immediately, we're running out of time." Man your computers - GlobalWarming101.com might give you a last glimpse of a dying polar world...
...aesthetic success. Individual triumphs of innovation and elbow grease, the bootleg movies are the film’s highlights, sugarcoated with all of Gondry’s quirky techniques. Ghosts wield flashlights and wear saran-wrap, while large cheese pizzas stand in for blood and brain matter in makeshift gangster flicks. Classics like “King Kong,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and “Driving Miss Daisy” all get their own indie treatments, to the delight of those within and without the film. Gondry turns the audience...
...conservative (read: unfavorable) stance on affirmative action, his officiation of Rush Limbaugh’s wedding, and other acts deemed worthy of the label racial treason.But according to a new book by Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, applying the label of racial treason is not a simple matter. Not only is the designation “sellout” complicated in defining the criteria for citizenship in Black America, but, Kennedy claims in “Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal,” the deployment of this term harms rather than protects the African American community. While Kennedy...
...Thursday was a different matter. In the wake of a scandalous New York Times story suggesting a romantic fling with a lobbyist, McCain arrived at a Ford Focus car assembly plant with a decidedly tense grin plastered across his face. His campaign staff promptly separated anyone with a pen or a tape recorder from the candidate. "The McCain campaign decided who they wanted on the tour, and it's only photographers," a nice lady from Ford announced after a reporter spotted the candidate behind a car chassis and tried to approach...
...increase production and help avoid a deep U.S. recession - one lasting enough to ripple across the world, and hit its new oil-hungry customers in Asia. Until then, investors are likely to keep speculating on high-priced oil, and Al-Naimi, Khelil and others will hold the line, no matter the appeals from Washington...