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...wants to know what’s important to the people around her, both in a profound way and in a more social way,” Taylor said. “She can deal with both very serious issues—professionally and personally—and she is really in touch with the little things, the funny things, the silly things that make people who they...
...skills are not as up to par, though they do go well with any awkward young character to play. In Adventureland, his most recent movie, which he headlined, he blinks and stares at the girl he likes (and who likes him) as he haltingly confesses to getting a bit serious on a date with someone else last week...
...time when myths and half-truths pose serious threats to intelligent discourse and one of the greatest problems of our generation—health care—must be engaged with seriously, these schoolyard antics on the part of both Fox and the White House neither are politically expedient nor do they move debate forward. The White House should take Fox’s deliberate deceptions seriously, but there are more intelligent ways to deal with lies than picking a fight that can’t be won at a reasonable cost. For now, the focus should be on what...
...reality, as signs appear that central-bank policies are beginning to diverge. On Oct. 6, Australia became the first G-20 nation to raise interest rates, hiking its key rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 3.25%. With "inflation close to target and the risk of serious economic contraction in Australia now having passed," Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens said in a statement, the central bank decided that it was now "prudent to begin gradually lessening the stimulus provided by monetary policy." Meanwhile, in other industrialized nations still suffering from high unemployment and yawning excess capacity...
...problem of illegal logging. Its park rangers are ill-equipped and too few in number to adequately patrol protected forests. A report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in August cited hundreds of attacks on rangers during a five-month period in 2009, resulting in 14 serious injuries. Illegal loggers and animal poachers have tried to run over officials with their vehicles, according to the report, and attack rangers with syringes. Lax management and local authorities colluding with loggers were partly to blame for the illegal logging of 3,200 acres (1,300 hectares) in the first...