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Kings' setting - a cleaned-up version of Manhattan - is stunning. You're lulled by familiarity, then rattled by reminders - say, a scribe following on Silas' heels, scribbling hagiography on a tablet computer - that this is a very different place. But some of creator Michael Green's inventions are puzzling or simplistic. Gilboa and Gath have modern armies, so why are they facing off across trenches as if it were World War I? (Apparently so that David can have dramatic moments walking across enemy lines.) Gilboa is an advanced capitalist state, so how can Silas be manipulated by his brother...
Branding endangered species rankles some greens, but Michael Bean, chief of the Environmental Defense Fund's wildlife program, sees it as a positive trend as the list of imperiled animals grows and other funding falls. "Potentially, it can do a lot of good," he says, "as long as there are no strings attached." Australia's Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, spent a month with the hairy-noses as an Epping caretaker. "It's absolutely terrific what Xstrata has done," says Henry, an ardent conservationist. "There's opportunities for other corporates to get involved with other species." Memo to Tasmanian devil...
...different articles about each kind, we should be figuring out a way to make soda less a part of our lives. Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate that the soda industry is finally responding to the critical literature on high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Food writer Michael Pollen calls HFCS the “culprit in the nation’s obesity epidemic,” but the Corn Refiners Association has been airing commercials recently to dispel this myth. (You can find them on YouTube. They’re worth watching.) Either way, switching...
...reported a strong Valentine’s Day weekend, as diners spent with abandon and tipped generously.“What we’ve seen as a trend overall in restaurants is that people are still doing the special occasions and the Saturday nights,” said Michael J. Mooney, the general manager of Rialto, an Italian restaurant that ranks among the Square’s swankiest.But weeknight business is another story.“Less people are going out on Monday and Tuesday for dinner,” Mooney said, adding that diners who come...
...those who believe the Republican Party must modernize its message to account for changing circumstances. The columnist David Brooks has called these people the "reformers." Against them are the "traditionalists," who believe that Republicans need only recommit themselves to Ronald Reagan's agenda to succeed again. (Read "Can Michael Steele Broaden the Grand Old Party...