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...another one-man dystopia drama. It's I Am Legend, directed by Francis Lawrence, the Viennese director of music videos who made his feature debut with a good science-fiction film, Constantine, and written by Akiva Goldsman, based on Mark Protosevich's script for a 1999 I Am Legend project that was to be directed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. As in I, Robot, Smith has seen the future - and it sucks...
...anti-climate change efforts, and one that has to be resolved if the world is ever to achieve the kind of large-scale reductions in carbon emissions needed to avert catastrophic climate change. "Forests are the elephant in the living room," says Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Project and a forestry advocate. "Powerful - but unseen and unrecognized...
...monitoring of the rate of deforestation. But attempting to track disappearing trees in jungles as vast as the Amazon - where 17 square miles are cut down each day - has long been considered all but impossible. There are also concerns about "leakage," the possibility that if one paid for a project to save trees in one area, logging would simply move to another, unprotected forest - and the saved CO2 would leak. But new space imaging, much of it done by the Japanese Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), can collect precise data on the rate and type of deforestation, even through clouds - pretty...
Best Three-quel: The Bourne Ultimatum Best TV Series (Reality): Project Runway Best Movie: Ratatouille Best Fashion Trend: Baby-Doll Dresses Best Song: “Stronger” by Kanye West Best TV Series (Non-Reality): The Office Best Harvard Building: Widener Library Best Book: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Why are you hot? “Asian glow.” “’Cause I’m exothermic.” “Because I’m filling this out on my motherfucking iPhone.” What...
...eventually lead to reconciliation. Independent Chinese and Japanese study commissions were set up to mark the massacre's 70th anniversary. Meanwhile, a Harvard-sponsored joint study on the Sino-Japanese War has contributed Chinese, Japanese and English scholarship that promises to narrow the gaps between Nanjing accounts. "A joint project can socialize each side to accept that the other side is working in good faith," says Fogel. "It can also reflect on how one's own side may be basing conclusions on something other than hard data." Iris Chang may have begun the truth-finding process when, in an effort...