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...right now, for Judd Apatow's slacker romantic comedy, it's beginning to smell a lot like Zeitgeist. (Which in this case has underodors of bong smoke and turd jokes.) Maureen Dowd, the New York Times' ageless arbiter of sexual politics, weighed in with a column on the movie. So did just about everyone who writes for The Huffington Post. Yesterday I received a promotion for a 1982 Eastern European art film that the publicist ID'd as "'Knocked Up,' Polish style." And there's the lawsuit from the author of a humorous memoir called Knocked Up: Confessions...
Most of the shelling seems concentrated at the northern end of the camp, where the Fatah al-Islam base is located. But there is also shelling elsewhere, and huge plumes of black smoke are rising from the camp. There is a tank near our position that is firing rounds, too. We are close enough to the camp that the soldiers are shooting with M16 rifles as well...
...People wonder how we lived here. But we were self-sufficient. We didn't drink, we didn't smoke. Any little bit of money you had, you had to use wisely otherwise you had none," says Corduff, 53, drinking tea in his kitchen as he muses on the strange course of events that made him, first a jailbird, then a national hero and, earlier this month, took him to San Francisco to collect $125,000 as winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize...
...country's poverty line. Cholera and malaria are rife, and child mortality rates are among the worst in the world. A kilometer away from Nova Vida, in the shanty town of Cambamba, children play in open sewers, and piles of burning garbage shroud shacks in foul-smelling clouds of smoke. As Valdemir puts it: "The rich use mineral water. For us there is no water. No electricity or sanitation either...
...protest the government's forcing RCTV off the airwaves, at midnight Sunday, by refusing to renew its broadcast license. The country's oldest channel had been replaced by state-run TVes, which showed cartoons and old movies during the protests. Critics of President Hugo Chavez warn that when the smoke clears, the television landscape will be largely bereft of independent voices willing to criticize the government...