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...nowhere to the top rank of directors. His filmography seems to explode, with movies as lurid and paranoid as their names. Desperate. Raw Deal. Railroaded! Great pulp titles, suitable for a trashy paperback, though they were all original screen stories. (The studios Mann worked for couldn't afford to option novels or plays; their writers had to make it up as they went along...
...establishes a credible security plan for Israel's northern border, which Arab sources say would take the form of a robust NATO force mandated to act firmly to maintain stability in southern Lebanon and would pave the way for the Lebanese army to take control of the border. That option also had the advantage, for Israel, of avoiding another long-term deployment of Israeli troops in Lebanon, an option of which the Israeli public remains wary given its traumatic 22-year occupation that ended...
...battles are a possible indication of just how difficult and costly ground fighting would be. There are now whispers in the intelligence and political communities that Israel may not be able to rely solely on the military option, that it may indeed have to heed the international community and launch a diplomatic front in this campaign. But at this point, what Israel will do next is as unclear as just how far Hizballah's threat reaches...
...magazine, published by the Natural Resources Defense Council in the U.S., recently opined: "Until coal is replaced with cleaner fuels, we must somehow make it part of the solution." Germana Canzi, a senior climate and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth, says: "We are supporting ccs as an option to bridge the gap between the fossil fuels of today and the cleaner fuels of tomorrow." There are obstacles that will likely mean we won't see too many full-scale coal-fired plants with ccs technology soon. Building a supercritical, 1,000-MW coal-fired plant with ccs technology...
...strike knocked out a key bridge. Now cars have to take back roads through the high mountain passes or head north up the coast road toward the Syrian city of Homs. Given the conditions on the roads, staying in Beirut while the bombs fall is as good an option as trying to make a run for it. "You share your bed with a Lebanese girl?" a staff member at the Tourism Ministry asked me. "Get married, and you won't have to leave...