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...This was transpacific yin and yang, and it all worked fine - until it stopped working almost entirely, late last year. Now both economies are flailing while leaders try to mitigate the worst effects of a frightening global recession. And the odd thing is, the two countries' salvage efforts are pretty much polar opposites as well. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
Easier credit fueled a rush of small business start-ups and car sales (admittedly the last thing São Paulo's insufferable traffic needed). Even the wine market, once a purely upscale domain, has been democratized. São Paulo wine retailer Expand has seen sales of its mid-priced bottles jump 25% each of the past few years, and it has opened new stores in provincial cities like Fortaleza, where beer and cachaça (cane liquor) were once the only tipples. Expand's owner, Otávio Piva de Albuquerque, says he spends as much time helping...
...confirmed atheist, I don't believe in the influence of religion on health. The only thing I admit is that religion can help through auto-suggestion. But religion will always survive, as mundus vult decipi (the world wants to be deceived). Frits Gorlé, GHENT, BELGIUM...
...actor's director. (The two self-starters are Haley, who does right by his grizzled role, and Morgan, a Robert Downey Jr. knockoff who chews the scenery and his stogie with equal aplomb.) And while the climax is unusual in a comic-book movie--bad guy does very bad thing, then escapes his comeuppance by persuading folks that what he's done is really kind of a good thing--it lacks the kick of apocalyptic retribution the mass audience expects and deserves...
Maybe Watchmen is one of those cult films that don't expand beyond the true believers. It probably won't make even alternative-movie history. Containing its own popcorn breaks--hit the concession stand whenever Dan and Laurie start their mooning--this ambitious picture is a thing of bits and pieces. But oh, those beautiful bits. And wow, those magnificent pieces...