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...about a fair-wage safety net will be revolutionized. In Canberra and beyond, Howard and his ministers have been extolling the proposed new system's fairness, choice and protections - soothing words that seek to hide the darker side of a deregulated labor market and that obscure the true scale of the risks and opportunities of globalization...
...among the lucky ones. As military helicopters and aid convoys began delivering food, water, medicine and tents to those stranded in the Himalayas last week, the full scale of the disaster became more apparent. The 7.6-magnitude earthquake that hammered northern Pakistan and India on Oct. 8 flattened entire villages, burying scores of people whose bodies remain unrecovered. In Pakistan, officials expect the final toll to exceed 50,000 dead, with many thousands injured and more than 2 million people left homeless. In India, the quake killed more than 1,300 and left more than 100,000 without shelter...
Right now, nobody disputes that digital music is the future and that Apple is the gatekeeper. If it becomes the gatekeeper to portable video, well, then, golly. Video is the blood and the lymph and the lingua franca of contemporary culture. Music is important, of course, but the scale is different. In a typical week, a top-selling album may move 300,000 copies. A top-rated TV show can draw an audience of 30 million. Add to that movie trailers, animated shorts, old syndicated shows, DVD-extra-style exclusives, and the entire television industry, which is hungry...
...will show up first in Germany, Spain, Italy, Mexico and Brazil, among other key markets, later this year. In 15 to 20 months, after the bottles' global tour, Coke will decide whether to retire the new designs or try to produce them on a broader scale. In the U.S., Coke worked with MK12, based in Kansas City, Mo., to fashion a bottle that will get Coke noticed in the right places, as in music videos. On his blog, Matt Fraction, one of MK12's founders, described his team's artistic freedom: "They left everyone alone to do the work...
...personality, the film reminds us that its protagonist is no monster, but a man with wholly human capacities for love and hate alike. Utlimately, “War”’s ambition outstrips its indie-film aesthetic: it is a political tragedy on the scale of “Doctor Zhivago,” constrained in its execution by a “Clerks”-level budget. As a cost-cutting measure, “War” is shot on high-definition video, and like many films of this medium it seems perennially underexposed. Also...