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...pair of guy friends who decide they're going to make an "artistic" pornographic movie, starring themselves as two straight guys having sex. If those words make you feel the compulsion to go check your fantasy-baseball status or Google some images of Gisele Bündchen in underwear rather than read on, please, stay with me. No heterosexual males were compromised in the making of this movie, nor is there any actual pornography in Humpday. This Sundance prizewinner from director Lynn Shelton is an undeniably titillating movie, but ultimately, its provocation is emotional, not physical...
...have to pay that tax, but it would raise less than one-third the revenue. Another idea, being floated by former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, would be to limit instead the deduction that companies could claim for providing those benefits. Because that additional tax would fall on businesses rather than on individuals, it might be more palatable politically - though it would also raise far less revenue and would likely be passed onto employees indirectly...
...Kemfert says that public opinion still makes it impossible to build new nuclear plants in Germany, but advocates extending the life of newer plants for 40 to 50 years. "We have already spent $55 billion on them," she says. "Rather than having a sunk investment, we can use them as a bridge to buy time while we work on cleaning up coal, which provides 50% of electricity in Germany...
...That last comment might help explain why Obama has opted to deliver his key Africa speech to Ghana's Parliament rather than to a public crowd, which would probably have drawn huge numbers. The news site Politico last weekend speculated that Obama - or his security detail - may also want to avoid the kind of bedlam that greeted Bill Clinton's visit to Accra in 1998, when he was nearly crushed by a crowd that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. On that day, as people surged toward the stage, the visibly terrified Clinton shouted, "Get back! Get back!" (Read "Into...
...that had hit many family-planning programs in Africa. And he has said he intends to tackle the onerous situation of African farmers, in part by creating a new $1 billion program funded by G-8 countries to boost agriculture in developing nations. He has also said that rather than shipping American-grown produce thousands of miles, he favors easing restrictions on using locally grown crops for U.S. food aid in Africa. However, Congress's approval of that change is not assured...