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...rubble of a demolished neighborhood. As China's economy has boomed, cities have undergone rapid transformation. Old neighborhoods are torn down and rebuilt with remarkable speed. And while some homeowners come away with substantial compensation and improved accommodations when their former residences are demolished, complaints of underpayment or outright corruption are frequent. Official investigations have uncovered more than 1 million incidents of illegal land takeovers in the first half of this decade...
...John Conroy (Mark Strong), try to strong-arm Victoria into signing over her power to her mother, just in case King William dies before she turns 18. We want her to be Queen so she can finally say, "Off with his head." Conroy is the film's only outright villain, but he's not really much source of tension: once she's Queen, she's the boss. Nor are Lord M. or Lehzen, even though they try to manipulate the young Queen, because this is primarily a love story. It certainly has sturdy roots: Victoria ruled for 63 years...
...Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum is made up of about 800 works that the government of Spain bought outright from Thyssen in 1992, and another several hundred acquired from Tita's 1,000-piece collection, which she in turn compiled with her late husband's largesse. Her part was loaned to the Spanish government in an agreement that expires in 2011. Borja says that two years ago he learned that he was co-heir of that collection, and notes that he has not as yet co-signed any agreement with the museum. It is this inheritance, which includes important works by Monet...
...other e-mails, scientists appear to have trouble reconciling recent temperature data with the warming expected from climate models. And overall, the correspondence evinces climate scientists' outright scorn for global-warming skeptics; in one message, Ben Santer, a researcher from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory offers - presumably in jest - to "beat the crap out of" a leading skeptic...
...have the e-mails been interpreted? To global-warming doubters, the CRU e-mails are the new Pentagon Papers, proof that the powers that be - in this case, international climate scientists - are engaged in outright fraud and were exposed only by a brave whistle-blower. (See pictures of a glacier melting in Peru...