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...growth of carbon emissions within seven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologies in about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of the planet’s species from global warming.” These tragic effects, however, in a twist of cruel irony, will likely impact most strongly those who have had the smallest hand in bringing them about. The wealthy, industrialized West, meanwhile, will largely be able to afford to avoid, adapt to, and rebound from crises. Despite our lower vulnerability to the effects of climate change, we have a moral obligation...
...waking up screaming from nightmares. Her heart is always either pounding or stopping. (Bella's histrionics don't feel at all unrealistic. When you're writing about adolescents, melodrama and realism are the same thing.) Rowling labors over her intricate plots, but Meyer's stories never bend or twist or branch. They have one gear, and she guns it straight ahead till the last page. The way she manages the reader's curiosity, maintaining tension and controlling the flow of information, is simply virtuosic. She creates a compulsion in the reader that is not unvampiric...
...Cotton Candy At Seattle's Vessel, Jaime Boudreau combines orange-infused candy floss and spirits for a new twist on the old-fashioned...
...tell me who you play in the freshman musical.US: I am Elias. I’m an island native. The castaways think their island is deserted, but then they find out that there’s a pretty advanced society there already. It’s kind of a twist from the standard castaway plot.RR: What’s your character’s native culture like?US: It parallels modern society more than you might think. It’s the middle of election season, there’s an unpopular war going on, and it?...
...reserved, curmudgeonly self gives way, slowly, to a more expressive man.Soon, however, Tarek is arrested in the subway and taken to a detention facility. The movie from then on is concerned with the question of whether or not he’ll be deported. As an additional twist, Tarek’s mother Mouna (Hiam Abbass, “Munich”) comes from Michigan to be near her son, although she can’t visit him in jail for fear of being deported herself. The movie starts to get heavy-handed around the time Mouna arrives at Vale?...