Word: ratner
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...ALEXANDER J. RATNER...
...Coen brothers' A Serious Man earned $860,000 at 82 theaters; Black Dynamite, the blaxploitation tribute that was highly praised at Sundance, could cadge only $141,000 on 70 screens; and the omnibus entry New York, I Love You, with directorial contributions by Mira Nair, Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner and Natalie Portman, took in a small-town $372,000 in 199 venues. Hopes remain high for two British romances. Bright Star, about poet John Keats' doomed love, has received $3.5 million in contributions from moony English majors; and An Education, with star-is-born Carey Mulligan, crossed the half-million...
...Charges of hypocrisy ignited immediately: it was all just "a clear bid to help Mama rise higher in the Republican Party," said Fox News contributor Ellen Ratner. "It doesn't look good for a future presidential hopeful to have a daughter who had a child and did not marry the dad. They had to re-brand Bristol Palin so that she fits into the conservative base." It was a mixed message, others charged: "Don't have sex as a teenager, but if you do, you might end up a happy celebrity with this beautiful baby." Still others disqualified her from...
...disproportionately in high CO2 environments. The wave of urbanization in America and much of the world doesn't help - the urban environment, often hotter and with more CO2 than rural areas, is ragweed heaven. "Urban places, because of the baking effect of that increased concrete, definitely pollinate more," says Ratner. It doesn't help that warming will also increase the production of ground-level ozone, a respiratory irritant that worsens asthma...
...world as climate change kicks in. A similar effect will also be felt in the northward shift of what is known as the hardiness zones - meaning that northern countries where allergies were once rare may no longer be as safe. "Those borderline northern regions will definitely feel changes," says Ratner...