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...source for electrical generators, are up 15-20% over last year, and domestic gas reserves are too small to meet demand. Vietnam is planning nuclear power plants, but the first won't be ready until 2020. Coal, on the other hand, is readily available. The country's northern Red River delta has some 30 billion tons of coal reserves - enough to generate electricity for 100 years. "If we could have the same economic development and still ensure the environment - well, of course we'd all pick that," says Long. "But there's no other way than coal...
Like the Boston-shot films Mystic River and The Departed, Gone Baby Gone harbors many ambivalent secrets. People do awful things out of weakness and from a selfishness they persuade themselves is protective love. Affleck lays it all out with clarity and grit, though the actor in him can't help giving every star a big verbal aria. That guy--actor Affleck--probably also wishes he could star in a movie as smart and twisty and morally complex as this...
...neat picture of him as movie-star chump by directing and co-writing a crackling little detective film about child abduction, Gone Baby Gone. In poker, this is known as going all in. First, the movie is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River, which Clint Eastwood put on film to much critical acclaim. Comparisons are inevitable. Second, the movie features imperiled children, spectacularly vulgar language and the urban poor of Boston, none of which scream must-see. Third, he cast his younger brother Casey as the lead, a private detective hired to find...
...after more than two months, only four screens and five kiosks have been activated, while at the nine river Houses, the screens and kiosks remain black...
...pretty well as a team,” Powers said. “The conditions were pretty challenging the whole weekend, because they were light and choppy, and there’s never really chop on the Charles River, so we’re not used to practicing in that...