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...taking things too seriously, Linklater is able to get a lot done. He has about 10 films he has started working on, patiently waiting for them to get traction with studios, investors or actors. There's an adaptation of the nonfiction book Fast Food Nation, an Owen Wilson and Natalie Portman movie called The Smoker (about parents who try to hook their daughter up with her high school teacher) and a football movie he started shooting but lost financing...
...first stories appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette. They gained traction thanks to a July 2004 memo by a Yale Divinity School team that advised academy chaplains on rape counseling but made note of "stridently evangelical themes" in Protestant services and warned that this could "encourage religious divisions." The letter was co-signed by Captain MeLinda Morton, a Lutheran chaplain at the academy. She has been reassigned to Okinawa--punishment, she claims, for speaking out, although the Air Force denies it. She has questioned the influence on the school of the many powerful Christian groups headquartered in Colorado Springs, sometimes...
...tons of radioactive waste being stored primarily at the same plants that produced it. The Energy Department's long-delayed plan to open an underground-storage facility in Nevada remains stalled by lawsuits and local resistance, and no alternative long-term solution has yet gained much traction. Critics say that is reason enough for the nuclear industry to be buried once and for all rather than resurrected. --By Daniel Eisenberg and Eric Roston
...accept Baathist-led guerrilla fighters killing U.S. soldiers as part of the Sunni mainstream. Fears of full-blown sectarian warfare between Shiites and Sunnis, meanwhile, have prompted urgent mediation efforts by, among others, the firebrand Shiite maverick Moqtada Sadr. Sadr appears to be using the opportunity to regain political traction against rivals in organizations such as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is the most influential party in the ruling coalition of prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. But Sadr's efforts are based on articulating a common nationalist agenda, specifically by demanding a timetable...
...reject this and send it back to him,” said Rep. Daniel E. Bosley, D-North Adams, chairman of the House Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Committee, according to the Boston Herald. “I don’t think it will have any traction...