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Davidowitz doesn't believe discounting will reach last year's 80% levels, mainly because most retailers ordered up to 20% less inventory this year. "They won't be as panicked or as big," he says. The 70% discounts will likely be offered on select items rather than store-wide, as they were last year...
...success. Four years after his thriller Hidden earned a respectable $16 million at the box office worldwide, he is garnering critical acclaim and snapping up awards for his latest film, The White Ribbon. The movie, released this fall in Europe and set to open in December in the U.S., won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and is generating Oscar buzz as a possible candidate for best foreign film. (See pictures of the red carpet at Cannes...
...promises his next project won't deviate much from his trademark nihilism. He starts shooting next summer what he describes through stifled laughs as "a film about the decomposition and the humiliation of the human body in old age." Sounds like vintage Haneke - no soppy happy ending in sight...
...Humans won't be the only animals to benefit. Clearing land for palm-oil plantations is Indonesia's leading cause of deforestation, says a 2007 U.N. report, with Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua the three worst-affected provinces. Thanks largely to the global appetite for palm oil, which is found in everything from chocolate bars to biofuels, the natural habitat of endangered animals such as the orangutan and Borneo rhino shrinks further each year. REDD could save them, said a recent study of Kalimantan by researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia. They believe that the revenues generated by preserving...
...vocal critic of the ousted president. (Zelaya himself could not run even if he was in power, as presidents are restricted to one term.) Three other candidates are also on the ballot but are not given a serious chance of winning. Office worker Walter Garcia said he won't vote for any of them, as a protest. "Why should I vote if the president I elect can be taken away at gun point? he said. (Read "Troubles for a Deal - and for Obama - in Honduras...