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...sources of this paralysis are somewhat different in the two countries. In Japan, a combination of highly constraining social patterns, consensus-based decision-making and an ossified political process have suppressed new ideas and made the country resistant to change. In the U.S., there is no shortage of fresh thinking, debate and outrage - the paralysis is caused by a lack of consensus on how problems should be tackled. There are too many people in positions of power who seem to believe no real change is necessary, or that it can just be put off, for political purposes, to another...
Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways is set in the era when the verb to feather expanded beyond things done with oars and nests to include hair. It's about the formation in 1975 of Joan Jett's first band, the Runaways - a rigorous selection process apparently based largely on who might look good standing where - and follows the girl group's rise to reasonable fame and not particularly dramatic dissolution in 1979, which was more fractious fizzle than downward spiral...
Fanning, 15 when the film was shot, turns in a performance of startling maturity. It's not just that she's sexy, although that is unexpected and slightly hard to process. (Only four years have passed since she was Fern in Charlotte's Web.) It's that she suggests an inner life for Currie that is both enigmatic and completely sympathetic. She underplays with mastery, revealing Currie as vapid, malleable, ordinary and lost, but at the same time riveting on- and offstage...
Citizen science - "the involvement of nonprofessionals in the scientific process," according to University of Oxford astronomer Chris Lintott, one of Galaxy Zoo's founders - is not a new concept. Distributed-computing projects like SETI@home, which hunts for radio signals that might indicate intelligent life in the universe, and ClimatePrediction.net, which tests the accuracy of global climate models, have long tapped volunteers' home computers to help process data. The difference between these projects and Galaxy Zoo - and its inspiration, Stardust@home, which asks volunteers to search electron-microscope images for interstellar dust particles collected in space - is that the latter...
...fate of settlers and of Palestinian refugees who fled their homes in Israel in 1948 and were barred from returning; security; and water rights. But the fate of the Holy City is easily the most emotive, and perhaps also the most intractable point of conflict. And the very process of trying to restart final-status talks has once again put Jerusalem at ground zero in the conflict. (See pictures of people protesting the new settlements in East Jerusalem...