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Gould had battled serious health issues earlier in his life. In 1982 he was diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma, a cancerous growth in the tissue coating many organs that usually comes about as a result of asbestos exposure...
...much care for message movies, because what you do is raise an important and serious issue and then create a movie answer for it--something that can solve the problem in under two hours. Neither am I interested in being a poster boy for a cause. We shouldn't decide which side of the issue we come down on on the basis of what celebrity we want to ally with...
...place in the economy: nationalization, socialization, privatization and pro-market reforms. Grémont says that such enduring élitism is difficult to challenge in normal economic times, which is the main reason some French executives continue to fear that the current global recession could morph into something more serious: a 1930s-style meltdown capable of shaking the entire economic structure to its foundations. Were that to happen, chain-reaction bankruptcies of companies could force the French state to step in and nationalize industries, dismantling the boardroom power structure. (See pictures of President Nicolas Sarkozy celebrating Bastille...
Indeed, while Himalayan ice will almost certainly still be here in 2035, it is definitely melting - and that will have a serious impact on the billions of people in Asia who depend at least partially on Himalayan meltwater. Yao Tandong, head of China's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, has done on-the-ground research on the Chinese side of the Himalayas - the world's biggest collection of ice outside the two poles - and reported last year that by the end of the century, as much as 70% of the mountain range's glaciers could disappear. And far from providing...
...mentioned North Korea - everybody was skeptical at the beginning of this year that we could get serious sanctions. Not only have we gotten serious sanctions, but they've actually been implemented. And finally - because this has been the area of most immediate concern - when it comes to counterterrorism, this Administration has taken out more al-Qaeda high-level operatives, has been more aggressive in pinning them down, not just in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also working with our international partners in places like Yemen and Somalia, than a lot of what's taken place previously...