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...Pyongyang before defecting to Seoul in 2002: "The grid is a mess." Seoul estimates that building the extra generating capacity and lines needed would cost $1.7 billion, but the final price could be many times higher. Turning on the power could cause the North's dilapidated grid to melt down, so South Korea might have to rebuild that as well, at a cost of billions more...
AFTER THE MOVIE VERSION CAME OUT: "I was tempted to call Felt and see what he thought ... Perhaps being played by [actor Hal] Holbrook in a dramatically heroic role would melt the iceberg that had risen between us. Or was the iceberg still growing? But I was basically gutless. I did nothing...
...clips from a day of shooting, in order to give yourself more space for evening festivities. But at least the Kubricks among us can shoot and re-shoot and re-shoot the blowing out of birthday candles until you have a take that really crackles (or until the candles melt away...
...Warming will also cause reductions in mountain glaciers and advance the timing of the melt in snow peaks in polar regions." OMITTED SENTENCE, in a U.S. draft report on global warming. The sentence was part of a section crossed out by Philip Cooney, White House Council on Environmental Quality chief of staff (and former oil industry lobbyist), whose edit note says the section was "straying from research strategy into speculative findings...
...Shared Confucian values are most obvious in the many paintings of the "four noble plants": plum blossoms, which flower before the snows melt, symbolize the hope of spring; chrysanthemums, the hardiness to survive in autumn; orchids, refinement and modesty; and bamboo, loyalty, because it bends but never breaks. This steadfastness is celebrated in an exquisite silk hanging scroll, Bamboo Blowing in the Wind by Yi Chong (1541-1626), a royal prince who is considered the greatest Korean painter of bamboo. You can almost feel the breeze as the dark leaves float away from their own ethereal shadows, an effect...