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...today without a little quirkiness thrown in for good measure. They’ve already ridden tiny donkeys, fallen in love with courtesans, and pretended to be cowboys. Now, it’s time to flirt with danger. Bring on the cougars and white tigers. The animals do seem a little irrelevant at first—the Killers are one with nature, we get it. But if white tigers, the desert, and ridiculous flashing lights can work for a pair of German magicians, why not the Killers? These quirks do work when you consider that “Human?...
...major disappointment and only appears on screen for five minutes—which is just long enough for him to get shot, roll down a hill, and be shot again. De Niro’s acting, which normally dominates the screen with its intensity, is flat and lackluster. He seems to want his character to be stony and cold, but instead comes off as indifferent and detached. Perhaps De Niro has just made one too many movies; he seriously looks like he needs a break. Levinson, who won the Oscar for best director in 1988 for “Rain...
...would seem also that travel by itself negates any possibility of eco-benefit, since flying burns so much carbon; a round-trip from New York to Nairobi, one popular ecotourism destination, creates nearly nine tons of carbon dioxide per person. Not to mention that the national parks, nature sanctuaries and remote wildlife reserves that draw most ecotravelers can be damaged by the foot traffic, to say nothing of the development that comes with tourism...
...seem perplexing, then, that when France nabbed the nine men scouting a passing ship 100 miles off Somalia's coast and found their boat laden with assault rifles, grenade launchers, and grappling hooks, they simply confiscated the boats and gear, and handed the men over to the authorities on shore. The estimated $30 million in ransom payments that has flowed into pirate coffers in the area over the past year will easily pay for replacement equipment, and even in the remarkable event that the nine remain behind bars, there's no shortage of recruits to one of Somalia...
...French are hoping that if the nine are tried and jailed by the Somali authorities, the piracy industry could begin to unravel. Right now, though, the pirates of Puntland don't seem to be feeling any need to panic...