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Clooney has starred in three movies released in the past month. The first two, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Fantastic Mr. Fox, are already withering at the wickets. Up in the Air, though, is soaring. The Jason Reitman comedy-drama, with Clooney as a corporate hired gun and frequent flyer, has swept awards - best film, actor and screenplay - from the National Board of Review and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. That plus a fruitful 91% rating from Rotten Tomatoes, top critics. (Read "Clooneypalooza: A Star Is Airborne...
...housing crisis, too, is a political sore point. Last week Treasury announced the initial results of its program to rewrite troubled residential loans. So far, of the more than 3 million past due loans at banks participating in the government's $75 billion loan-modification program, just slightly more than 30,000 have been permanently adjusted so the mortgage holders can make lower, government-subsidized payments. That means millions of troubled homeowners and millions of potential bad loans still on banks' books, perpetuating the uncertainties and fears that can undermine any economic recovery. Obama wants the banks to move faster...
...impossible to know whether traders engaged in risky behavior because of high levels of testosterone, or whether their testosterone levels became elevated because of their risk-taking. "I think the bottom line is that the picture surrounding testosterone is very complex," Naef says, "but we certainly have to move past the myth that it simply leads to aggression...
...cuisine on the international foodie map. Better than anyone else, says Styregard, "Noma has successfully managed to communicate this new approach to Scandinavian cuisine to a broad international audience." A quick flip through the food magazines or the line-up at chefs conferences in the past couple of years proves he is right: Nordic...
...well prod the government to a more serious dialogue over the land issues. "Otherwise," says Caifal, "we are creating a [Mapuche] generation that has grown up in a climate of violence, and that offers a bad future for the country." Especially if it means raising ghosts from the past...