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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Kotok knows nothing about biofuels. He's more concerned about his tribe's recent tendency to waste its precious diesel-powered generator watching late-night soap operas. But he's right. Deforestation can be a complex process; for example, land reforms enacted by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have attracted slash-and-burn squatters to the forest, and "use it or lose it" incentives have spurred some landowners to deforest to avoid redistribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clean Energy Scam | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...carried with them everything they owned with their children in tow: small animals, powdered milk and soap to sell at the market, brightly-colored plastic bags emblazoned with Disney characters, and even one kitchen sink...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Crimson Call of Duty: Student Soldiers | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...this old admirer of these three ex-child stars renders a mixed verdict on their London tours. Penelope has no special reason to be, but Ricci gives it a comely sheen. Boleyn isn't the trashy, passionate soap opera it could have been. And as lovely as Hollywood's Lend-Lease program can be to attract financing for Anglo productions, I have to wonder whether a British actress or two couldn't be found to give the roles of Anne and Mary a little more delicacy, heft and craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Boleyn Girl: When Child Stars Grow Up | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...best thing Harvardwood can do is build that network at Harvard,” says Harry T. Rimalower ’10, an aspiring director involved with the Harvard-Radcliffe Television soap Ivory Tower. “After all, the undergrads of today are the alumni of tomorrow...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir and Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvardwood 101 | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...everyone is going to identify with people whose biggest problem is being oppressed by the household help. Cashmere's ratings have been weak--although that may have more to do with its cardboard characters and predictable, Soap 101 story lines than its milieu. Like too many SATC clones, it's glib but not insightful, and its characters seem like a random quartet of women with no real chemistry as friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Ms. Big | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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