Word: polarizing
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...Disney movie arriving in multiplexes on April 22 features lots of animals - none of them cartoons. The ambitious new nature film called Earth chronicles a year in the life of the planet, opening in the dead of winter at the Arctic, with a mother polar bear peeking her snout out of the snow, and ending at the opposite pole, in the brief Antarctic summer amid a dance of humpback whales...
...material for young children - no actual killing is shown on film - and Earth is rated G. For a nature film, Earth also takes a notably G-rated stance on the subject of the environment. Climate change is mentioned a few times in passing - and we see a male polar bear in northern Norway struggling with melting sea ice - but there is no real message or explanation of it here. Instead of doom, the overall mood is joy, the renewal that comes with rain and sun and summer. Never mind that there's less rain and hotter summers - this film...
...Baghdad and al-Qaeda is around the corner. He shrugs off robberies of the mall stores but thinks the escapades of a flasher (Randy Gambill) are the start of World War III. He hears voices in his head, and they're not happy. He's the polar - actually, bipolar - opposite of nice, nebbishy Paul Blart in this year's most popular comedy. Ronnie is Travis Bickle, Mall Cop. (See an interview with Seth Rogen...
...before we all turn our thermostats down or consider joining the Polar Bear Club, can brown fat actually cause weight loss? Brown fat may indeed shift the balance of calorie intake and expenditure - allowing a person to burn more calories with the same amount of consumption - without the chore of going to the gym or sweating through a workout. "We have very few interventions aimed at increasing energy expenditure," says Dr. Franceso Celi, a clinician at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. "And here we have a tissue that works...
...homegrown version of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Those scientists reported that by the end of the century, annual mean temperatures in New York City could increase 7.5ºF (13.6ºC), with sea levels rising as much as 55 in. (140 cm), depending on how fast polar ice melts. "Coastal floods will be very powerful and very damaging," says Cynthia Rosenzweig, a NASA researcher and co-chair of the New York climate panel...