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...California, and similar anti-gay marriage legislation in Arizona and Florida. Considering this political climate, the release of director Gus Van Sant’s new film, “Milk”—which chronicles the final eight years of the life of Harvey Milk, an openly gay politician in California in the 1970s—seems appropriate. “Milk” shows us how far we have come, but also how far we still have to go. Harvey Milk, played by Oscar winner Sean Penn, is a man disturbed by the discrimination he experiences...
EVERYWHERE Milk Check out the Gus Van Sant--directed film starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to a major public office...
...19th century, ice delivery men visited American homes as regularly as milk men, depositing large cubes into ice boxes made of wood and often lined with tin. According to Dupont, which later invented the coolant Freon, ice was harvested where it formed naturally - including from New York City's rivers - and shipped to the South, all in the name of food storage. In the 1840s, a Florida physician named John Gorrie, trying to cool the rooms where patients were suffering from yellow fever, figured out how to make ice using mechanical refrigeration, paving the way for household refrigerators that appeared...
...moral vacuum of modern China, is feed off the aura of a man preaching compassion and civic duty. When Li takes the rostrum, he reminds people of a time before land grabs, kickbacks and beatings - of a China in which people were not counterfeiting, short-changing, corner-cutting, milk-adulterating hucksters but virtuous and simple. "Before this country opened up, people were more focused on their spiritual lives," he says. "Since this country opened we have been more focused on the material life. For the sake of Chinese culture, it's time for a balance...
...already a gathering natural disaster. To live on the arid soil of the Sahel is an eternal struggle for water, food and shelter. In the past, nomad Arab herders and settled farmers (Arabs and Africans) worked together: the farmers allowed the herders' livestock on their land in exchange for milk and meat. But as good land became scarcer, the two sides began to fight over it. "You might laugh if I say that the main reason of this issue is a camel," said Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi at his failed attempt at Darfur peace talks in October 2007. "But Africa...