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...must not ignore the needs and opinions of the Alaskans. The state’s entire Congressional delegation, the state’s Senate and House, the governor and 78 percent of residents of the village of Kaktovik, the Native village within the coastal plain, support development of the ANWR. Those who are closest to the area and know the unbiased facts of the situation understand that drilling can be done responsibly. Done correctly, oil drilling in the ANWR will both increase conservation efforts and aid economic growth...
...anymore. As an authoritative report issued a few weeks ago by the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes plain, the trend toward a warmer world has unquestionably begun. Worldwide temperatures have climbed more than .5?C over the past century, and the 1990s were the hottest decade on record. After analyzing data going back at least two decades on everything from air and ocean temperatures to the spread and retreat of wildlife, the IPCC asserts that this slow but steady warming has had an impact on no fewer than 420 physical processes and animal and plant species...
...Work begins at a wrenching 6 a.m. and drags on for 22 hours, and the temperature is soaring. It will soon get hotter. The final scene in the production schedule is a sybaritic consummation of furtive desire between two female characters. That has created anticipation, apprehension, curiosity and some plain old sauciness that one suspects was the intention from the start of 40-year-old director/co-producer Nonzee Nimibutr, Thailand's auteur of the moment?and a sly yet appealing character in just about every...
Filming begins after sunset, and Timkul has already downed several cans of Heineken, insisting she was so nervous the night before she couldn't sleep. Chung has a few too. It's a miminal set: white walls, rotating ceiling fans, a plain dark wooden bed. Nonzee drapes a mosquito net over the bed and parts it so the camera can watch through a gap. The girls get up from behind the monitor in an adjoining room where Nonzee orchestrates the shots, take a big sigh and get ready to rumble. "Action!" The girls sit erect on the bed, kissing each...
...should also tell her about the news of the obvious truth. That took me decades to learn. As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy--a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts. And then after witnessing enough pain and plain courage in the world, I simply reversed course and started writing about the life before my eyes. Eventually one understands that the world is largely made up of obvious truths, lying in the open, begging to be repeated...