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...center of the Libyan Desert (a.k.a. the Great Sand Sea) was apparently the very best place on Earth to study the total solar eclipse in 2006. The unprecedented visit by NASA scientists was recorded and the film is now going to be shown to the public across North Africa according to Robert Senseney, a senior State Department science advisor, who says there are a series of other private and governmental exchanges in the works...
...Greetings indie weirdos," host Rainn Wilson said to open the show. "Here come the first motherf-----s to present the first motherf-----g award." At the chronically casual Spirit Awards, celebs wear jeans, snack on popcorn on the blue (yes, blue) carpet, duck into porta-potties parked on the sand, and usually wrap up all their low-budget revelry by dark. But this year, as a party-starved Hollywood convened under a leaky tent on the beach in Santa Monica, Calif., the annual frolic over independent film seemed especially, well, spirited. With quirky low-budget movies like Juno...
...very sensitive topic for social, religious and personal reasons, it is worth debating. Overpopulation is the root cause of poverty, war and almost every other problem. In a few short years, 9 billion people will inhabit this shrinking earth. If leaders continue to bury their heads in the sand at the mere mention of the subject, the resulting problems and suffering will affect many generations to come...
...discussions on Breakfast at Tiffany’s (“The movie, not the novella”), guidelines for coming out of the closet as a public figure (“Are you British? Are you knighted?”), and a monologue comparing the transience of Buddhist sand mandalas to Hollywood executives ordering salads and later excreting the contents.Orsini and Serrell oscillate between the tender and the wooden. Moments in which the two examine their hang-ups over their sexual orientation, which extend far beyond simple denial, find the two at their best, filled with passion tempered...
...base. "[Rolls-Royce has] been a main stayer ever since," says Patrick Dunleavy, chairman of the Public Policy Group at the London School of Economics. Not all such government action has worked, however. The nationalization of carmaker British Leyland four years later couldn't stop it "running into the sand," Dunleavy says...