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...Once Jacob lands in Denmark After the Wedding - a rich, intricate and very gripping movie from Susanne Bier - takes off. His benefactor, Jorgen (Rolf Lassgard), is Jacob's opposite in every way. He's a large, bumptious man, open in his emotions - genial and generous in his family life - but devious and manipulative in his business dealings. He invites Jacob to attend the wedding of his adopted daughter, knowing full well that (a) he has married the great love of Jacob's life and (b) that the daughter is actually Jacob's child - a fact that becomes agonizingly clear...
...because of its poverty--78% of its population lives on less than $2 a day--Bangladesh cannot afford the kind of defenses planned in Europe, or even New Orleans. As a matter of fairness, Huq says, adaptation measures in poor countries should be subsidized by rich countries. "It is poor countries that are suffering the brunt of climate change," he says, "but it is the rich countries' greenhouse-gas emissions that caused this problem in the first place." Britain is already subsidizing a substantial program in Bangladesh that will raise roads, wells and houses above the level of the last...
...earth is full of safe, stable places to store gases we don't want, and scientists know precisely where they are. The natural gas that heats homes, fires stoves and runs factories is found in deep, saline-rich limestone and sandstone cavities, where spongelike pores store gas and help keep it from leaking away. When the energy industry pumps a deposit clean, the chambers stand empty. Not only are the shape and capacity of the cavities mapped, but also in many cases equipment is still on hand that could easily be repurposed from extraction to injection...
Beard Papa's is the Dunkin' Donuts of Japan, only it has replaced fried dough with cream puffs on steroids. It opened its first U.S. store in 2003 and has been invading mall spots. Inside each store, Japanese women in uniforms push down on metal levers to plop rich, creamy custard mixed with whipped cream into oversize profiterole shells. Like so much of Japanese culture, Beard Papa's has taken our creation and refracted it through the mythological wholesomeness of America in the 1950s--which is just what you want fast-food dessert to taste like...
...intellectuals are most famous for their ideas justifying human bondage. Hammond, who wanders through Faust’s work the way that populist Thomas Watson meanders through the works of C. Vann Woodward, is problematic both in his ideas and in his personal life. He became rich through marriage, sired children with his slaves, and almost destroyed his political career with a scandal involving his nieces...