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...That's why Street Kings, though it isn't a great movie, is a pretty damn cool Keanu Reeves movie, one that on the Reevesian action scale measures somewhere between "Whoa...
...attempt at balance or impartiality and jumps straight into the ring to tear apart the credibility of the pro-war brigade. This makes for a compelling, but wildly-biased, viewing experience. Directors Phil Donahue (yes, that Phil Donahue) and Ellen Spiro use a mix of small- and large-scale stories to convey their point. Scenes showing Young attempting to recover from the injuries he sustained after being shot just a week after arriving in Iraq are interspersed with footage from the Congressional debates over the war in October 2002. While Young learns to deal with life in a wheelchair, senators...
Face it: there's no one fuel Panacea, and in the final analysis, humans will have to scale back their numbers in order to live within a finite fossil- (or even renewable-) fuel world. And good luck with that. William L. Seavey, AMBRIA, CALIF...
...Administration specifically for NTDs between 1975 and 1999 were developed exclusively through public avenues of funding. Universities, the originators of 50 of the 100 most important therapeutic interventions in use today, are the institutions best suited to combine the disciplinary scope in basic and social sciences with the international scale in research capacity to effectively meet the challenges posed by NTDs...
...Harvard University, as a leader among research universities, should take significant steps to scale up both NTD research and global health delivery science. New, multi-million dollar, multi-disciplinary centers for research in both areas should be established, complete with administrative capacity for inter-disciplinary collaboration, funding for junior researchers, support for tenure-track positions, and formation of overseas capacity for research and training. Because of the lack of traditional research funds in this field, the university must be proactive in seeking non-traditional sources of financial support, including philanthropic foundations and alumni champions. Although the challenges to each field...