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...where she used to live in as a child along with her husband and son. As mysteries surface around the building and her seven-year-old son grows increasingly obsessed with his invisible friends, Laura begins to worry about the state of her only child, who is adopted. The sudden disappearance of Laura’s son takes her on a physically and emotionally drenching quest to her past, where she encounters the supernatural, uncovers many secrets, and surprisingly, finds some long awaited comfort. Chiefly a one-woman show (if you only count characters with flesh), the film?...
...ethical debate rages on. Some NGOs and their political sympathizers insist that climate change is the fault of the affluent who must atone for the sin of industrialization. No unnecessary travel, thermostats turned down, no luxury homes or supersized SUVs. This call for penance is combined with fantasies of sudden, miraculous technological change. Many too easily accept the argument that only by limiting economic growth can we achieve real solutions. This thinking is deeply misguided. First, the technological quick fix simply isn't coming, and second, it defies human nature, which responds better to incentives than to moralistic exhortation...
...thing For CEOs who founded clean-tech companies before this explosion of interest, the sudden materialization of capital can seem too good to be true. When Tom Todaro launched Seattle-based Targeted Growth, which uses genetic engineering to greatly enhance the yields of crops, he thought the company's ability to multiply the amount of feedstock available for biodiesel or ethanol would make it a star of the emerging biofuels sector. But it was the late 1990s, when clean tech made up less than 1% of total venture-capital spending, and investors weren't interested. "I went begging to friends...
...game’s not over until the fullback sings. “I got goose bumps,” says Murphy. Van Niel’s experience as an opera-singing fullback (or perhaps a football-playing lyric tenor) recently captured the interest of the national media. The sudden attention surprised Van Niel. “It’s kind of funny,” he says. “I was doing these things before...and I’ll be doing them after.” Noah’s mother, Maureen Sayres Van Niel, remembers...
...discussing the stunning new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Iran halted its nuclear-weapons program in 2003. He looked as if he'd spent the night throwing chairs around the Situation Room. A reporter noted that he seemed dispirited, and the President joked, "This is like - all of a sudden, it's like Psychology 101, you know?" He added, "No, I'm feeling pretty spirited, pretty good about life, and I made the decision to come before you so I can explain the NIE." And then, defiantly, "And so, kind of Psychology 101 ain't working. It's just...