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Joining Lin in the Sealant backcourt will be Aubrey Coleman of Houston, a shooting guard who led all Division I players in scoring, and Arizona point guard Nic Wise...
...Nic Marks, the key shift introduced by the HPI is its "move away from measuring production and toward measuring consumption. The HPI serves as a signpost pointing more toward a society we want to live in - the delivery of good lives rather than the delivery of more goods...
...suited a different era and now we need a metric for our times," says Nic Marks, a Fellow at the London-based New Economics Foundation, and founder of its Centre for Well-Being. "During World War II production was important. After the war was the need for rebuilding. We're way past that. We need to account for our ecological footprint and see how we're operating on the planet. The GDP is often precisely wrong in that it's not measuring progress, just the making of stuff. The HPI is striving to measure a better future." One appeal...
...images rendered in slo-mo, and to a soprano's lofty rendition of Handel's Lascia ch'io pianga ("Leave me to weep over my cruel fate"), a couple makes love on a snowy evening. In another room the washing machine churns. In a third, the couple's son Nic escapes his crib to, and goes to a window ledge where he teeters, then falls to his death. The sex act, Nic's life and the wash conclude simultaneously. The child's last moment has a beauty to match its horror: as he lands there's the splash...
...Among the also-rans, The Haunting of Connecticut scared up $9.6 million in its second weekend, and the three big releases from a fortnight ago - the Nic Cage Knowing, the buddy comedy I Love You, Man and Julia Roberts' Duplicity - filled out the other slots in the top seven. Wrestling star John Cera's 12 Rounds continued its flabby run, and the Amy Adams indie comedy Sunshine Cleaning broke into...