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...military tribute and a Three Stooges routine. But that's par for a Farber piece. As Polito notes, he "sustains strings of divergent, perhaps irreconcilable adjectives such that praise can seem inseparable from censure - Touch of Evil, he writes, is 'basically the best movie of Welles's cruddy middle peak period...
...ways, though, Etown feels like a throwback to a time when musicians played with a social conscience and music could effect political change. But what's clear is that show's gradual success mirrors the growth of environmental thinking nationally in the U.S. - a process that might reach a peak at the Democratic Convention, where energy and the environment will be higher on the political agenda than ever before. Ultimately, whether or not delegates offset their carbon emissions or bike around Denver in the August heat will matter less than whether 2008 marks the moment that environmentalism truly enters...
...demand from the ailing U.S., China's export growth is slowing sharply. Manufacturing contracted in July for the first time since at least 2005, according to China's Purchasing Managers' Index, resulting in reduced hiring by the sector. Meanwhile, a 50% drop in China's stock markets from their peak last October is creating a reverse wealth effect, some economists believe, leading both consumers and companies to be more cautious about their outlays. Tao Wang, an economist with Bank of America in Beijing, says China's GDP growth will slow to 10% this year, down from...
...Famously without the Hamm twins, Paul and Morgan, both of whom pulled out of the Beijing Games due to nagging injuries that prevented them from performing at their peak (Paul is the defending Olympic all-around champion, and Morgan is a 2004 veteran), working as a cohesive unit was the only way the U.S. was ever going to reach the medal stand. And Tan knew just the way to do that - by keeping his teammates confident and deaf to the doubters. Texan Jonathan Horton, the team's best all-around gymnast who came a few tenths short...
...presented in incredible density: from Victoria Peak, you can see just how impossibly tiny the Hong Kong Island urban jungle is. Central's twinkling strip of tenements and skyscrapers line one bank of Victoria Bay while Tsim Sha Tsui, on the far side, is Central's equally slender but less dramatic companion. The manmade portion of Hong Kong is merely two shimmering halves of a wafer-thin cookie engulfed in mountains of green...