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2009-03-31

250 Million Years in the Future: "Pangea Ultima"

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Historical No comments

The life history of an ocean basin is determined by the balance between two opposing forces: sea floor spreading (rifting) and subduction. During the early phases of ocean formation, rifting dominates. A small continental rift, much like the East African Rift, grows wider forming a narrow ocean, like the Red Sea. Sea floor spreading continues to rapidly widen the ocean.

At some point in time a subduction zone forms along one of the margins of the ocean. Ocean floor is now destroyed at about the same rate that it is created. During this period in an ocean's history, it neither grows nor contracts, much like the modern Pacific.

Eventually the mid-ocean ridge gets too close to one of the margins and is subducted. Now the ocean is in a period of decline. Because no new ocean floor is being created, the ocean must close.

250 million years in the future, the Atlantic and Indian oceans have closed. North America has collided with Africa, but in a more southerly position than where it rifted. South America is wrapped around the southern tip of Africa, with Patagonia in contact with Indonesia, enclosing a remanent of the Indian Ocean.

Antarctica is once again at the South Pole and the Pacific has grown wider, encircling half the Earth.

We call this future Pangea, "Pangea Ultima", because it is the final Pangea.

Source: Scotese

100 Movies To See Before You Die

Sunday, March 29, 2009 Top 100 No comments

Many movies are good, some are great, but only a select few can be called truly "essential." After heated discussions, long negotiations, and a shouting match or two, the staff at Yahoo! Movies has put together this list of the 100 films you must see before you die. To choose the titles for the list, we considered factors like historical importance and cultural impact. But we also selected films that we believe are the most thrilling, most dramatic, scariest, and funniest movies of all time. Some of these films you've seen, and some you may not have heard of, but we believe that each one is a timeless classic that you absolutely have to see.

12 Angry Men (1957)

Directed By: Sidney Lumet

Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester

The 400 Blows (1959)

Directed By: Francois Truffaut

Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay

8 ½ (1963)

Directed By: Federico Fellini

Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee

The African Queen (1952)

Directed By: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley

Alien (1979)

Directed By: Ridley Scott

Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

All About Eve (1950)

Directed By: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders

Annie Hall (1977)

Directed By: Woody Allen

Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall

The Battle of Algiers (1967)

Directed By: Gillo Pontecorvo

Starring: Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Brahim Haggiag

The Bicycle Thief (1948)

Directed By: Vittorio De Sica

Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola

Blade Runner (1982)

Directed By: Ridley Scott

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Directed By: Mel Brooks

Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens

Blow Up (1966)

Directed By: Michelangelo Antononi

Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

Blue Velvet (1986)

Directed By: David Lynch

Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Directed By: Arthur Penn

Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard

Breathless (1960)

Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Directed By: David Lean

Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins,

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Directed By: Howard Hawks

Starring: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Directed By: George Roy Hill

Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

Casablanca (1942)

Directed By: Michael Curtiz

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Chinatown (1974)

Directed By: Roman Polanski

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston

Citizen Kane (1941)

Directed By: Orson Welles

Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Directed By: Ang Lee

Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang

Die Hard (1988)

Directed By: John McTiernan

Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Directed By: Spike Lee

Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Directed By: Billy Wilder

Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Duck Soup (1933)

Directed By: Leo McCarey

Starring: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

Directed By: Amy Heckerling

Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold,

The French Connection (1971)

Directed By: William Friedkin

Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider

The Godfather (1972)

Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan,

The Godfather, Part II (1974)

Directed By: Francis Ford Coppola

Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Goldfinger (1964)

Directed By: Guy Hamilton

Starring: Sean Connery, Honor Blackman

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1968)

Directed By: Sergio Leone

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

Goodfellas (1990)

Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

The Graduate (1967)

Directed By: Mike Nichols

Starring: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross,

Grand Illusion (1938)

Directed By: Jean Renoir

Starring: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim

Groundhog Day (1993)

Directed By: Harold Ramis

Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Directed By: Richard Lester

Starring: The Beatles

In the Mood For Love (2001)

Directed By: Wong Kar-Wai

Starring: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung

It Happened One Night (1934)

Directed By: Frank Capra

Starring: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Directed By: Frank Capra

Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore

Jaws (1975)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

King Kong (1933)

Directed By: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Shoedsack

Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong

The Lady Eve (1941)

Directed By: Preston Sturges

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Directed By: David Lean

Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

The Lord of the Rings (2001,2002,2003)

Directed By: Peter Jackson

Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen

M (1931)

Directed By: Fritz Lang

Starring: Peter Lorre, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke

M*A*S*H (1970)

Directed By: Robert Altman

Starring: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Directed By: John Huston

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet

The Matrix (1999)

Directed By: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski

Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss

Modern Times (1936)

Directed By: Charlie Chaplin

Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Directed By: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Directed By: John Landis

Starring: John Belushi, Tim Matheson

Network (1976)

Directed By: Sidney Lumet

Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

Nosferatu (1922)

Directed By: F.W. Murnau

Starring: Max Schreck, Gustave Von Wagenheim, Greta Schroeder,

On the Waterfront (1954)

Directed By: Elia Kazan

Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Directed By: Milos Forman

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield

Paths of Glory (1958)

Directed By: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou

Princess Mononoke (1999)

Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki

Starring: Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver

Psycho (1960)

Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Directed By: Quentin Tarantino

Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

Raging Bull (1980)

Directed By: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty-Gentile, Joe Pesci

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman

Raise the Red Lantern (1992)

Directed By: Zhang Yimou

Starring: Gong Li, He Caifei, Cao Cuifeng

Rashomon (1951)

Directed By: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo

Rear Window (1954)

Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Directed By: Nicholas Ray

Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo

Rocky (1976)

Directed By: John Avildsen

Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young

Roman Holiday (1953)

Directed By: William Wyler

Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore

Schindler's List (1993)

Directed By: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

The Searchers (1956)

Directed By: John Ford

Starring: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles

Seven Samurai (1954)

Directed By: Akira Kurosawa

Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Directed By: Frank Darabont

Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Directed By: Jonathan Demme

Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Directed By: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelley

Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Directed By: David Hand

Starring: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Directed By: Billy Wilder

Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon

The Sound of Music (1965)

Directed By: Robert Wise

Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer

Star Wars (1977)

Directed By: George Lucas

Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Directed By: Billy Wilder

Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Directed By: James Cameron

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton

The Third Man (1949)

Directed By: Carol Reed

Starring: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles

This is Spinal Tap (1984)

Directed By: Rob Reiner

Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest

Titanic (1997)

Directed By: James Cameron

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Directed By: Robert Mulligan

Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford

Toy Story (1995)

Directed By: John Lasseter

Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Directed By: Bryan Singer

Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne

Vertigo (1958)

Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

Directed By: Rob Reiner

Starring: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher

Wild Strawberries (1957)

Directed By: Ingmar Bergman

Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin

Wings of Desire (1988)

Directed By: Wim Wenders

Starring: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Directed By: Victor Fleming

Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Directed By: Pedro Almodovar

Starring: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas

The World of Apu (1959)

Directed By: Satyajit Ray

Starring: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Swampan Mukerjee,

Yahoo! Movies

Critics call WTC tower name change unpatriotic

Sunday, March 29, 2009 Media No comments

NEW YORK – Even without the name, the symbolism of the Freedom Tower as an American response to the Sept. 11 terror attacks was hard to miss.

The original architect designed a twisting form he wanted to imitate the Statue of Liberty, with a spire that rose to the deliberate height of 1,776 feet to recognize the year of American independence. Politicians called the tower proof of the country's triumph over terrorism.

Former Gov. George Pataki said visitors to the iconic skyscraper "will know our determination to overcome evil" in a 2003 speech that first gave the Freedom Tower its name.

The tower — still under construction with a projected completion date of 2013 — no longer has the same architect, design or footprint on the 16-acre site. And this week, the owners of ground zero publicly parted ways with the Freedom Tower name, saying it would be more practical to market the tallest building in New York as the former north tower's name, One World Trade Center.

Critics called the name drop an unpatriotic shedding of symbolism by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Some newspaper editorials blasted the agency for years of missed deadlines and changing plans for the site.

"When you've broken your promises on everything else to do with redeveloping ground zero, it's no big deal to discard the name by which the public has come to know the iconic skyscraper at the heart of the plan," the New York Daily News wrote on Friday.

But others privately repeated fears that have plagued the building as negotiations with major corporations to take up space in the tower came and went: that the 102-story Freedom Tower's name could make it more susceptible to future attacks than a symbol of defiance against it.

"The fact is, more than 3 billion dollars of public money is invested in that building and, as a public agency, we have the responsibility to make sure it is completed and that we utilize the best strategy to make certain it is fully occupied," the agency said in a statement Friday.

Agency chairman Anthony Coscia was more critical in remarks Thursday, when the Port Authority announced its first corporate lease at the tower with a Chinese business center.

"As we market the building, we will ensure the building is presented in the best possible way," he said. One World Trade Center is "easiest for people to identify with, and frankly, we've gotten a very interested and warm reception to it."

Coscia had expressed concerns about the Freedom Tower three years earlier, saying he would never ask Port Authority employees to move into the tallest, most symbolic skyscraper being built at the site because they had survived 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks and would find it too emotionally difficult to return.

Several other government offices were located in the original trade center, and the Port Authority is trying to finalize leases with the federal and state governments that would lease half the building. No other corporate tenants have signed on. The Port Authority has agreed to lease space in another tower being built at the site.

Pataki — who named the Freedom Tower in his 2003 speech and continued to refer to it in rebuilding speeches as a symbol of America's ability to come back after Sept. 11, took offense at the loss of the Freedom Tower moniker and its replacement.

"Where One and Two World Trade Center once stood, there will be a memorial with two voids to honor the heroes we lost. In my view, those addresses should never be used again," he said.

The Daily News and New York Post published editorials backing the former governor. But The New York Times on Saturday wrote that Pataki's name for the building became "its burden," and said the Port Authority was "quietly and sensibly" using another name to market the tower to high-profile commercial tenants.

The Port Authority suggested that people could still call the building the Freedom Tower; the name has stuck despite the fact that the agency quietly stopped it on first reference years ago. The agency made One World Trade Center the building's legal name when it took over its construction in 2006, although it also acquired the trademark for the Freedom Tower name.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg — who said Friday he prefers the name Freedom Tower — said the building's true name may be left to the public.

"One of the things is we call things what we want to call them. So Avenue of Americas is a good example. It's Sixth Avenue to most people," the mayor said. "If they name this One World Trade Center, people will still call it the Freedom Tower."

Source: Associated Press

SENTENCING IN 2001 ECO-TERRORISM ATTEMPT AT MICHIGAN

Sunday, March 29, 2009 Criminal No comments

MARQUETTE, MI—Ian Jacob Wallace, 27, of East Setauket, New York, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell to serve three years in Federal prison for his role in the November 5, 2001, attempted fire-bombing of U.S. Forest Service property located on the campus of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today. Wallace, who committed the offense on behalf of the activist environmental group known as the “Earth Liberation Front” or “ELF,” was also ordered to pay over $1.6 million in restitution to the victims of other similar, but successful, acts of arson and property destruction in Western Wisconsin and Minnesota that he participated in between 2000 and 2002.

In targeting Michigan Tech, Wallace and a second ELF adherent, who has since been convicted and sentenced in the District of Oregon, had sought to destroy federally-funded research that was being conducted into genetic modification of plants. Although Wallace could have been sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison, Judge Bell imposed a much lower sentence in recognition of the assistance Wallace provided to the United States in its investigation of other ELF actions; because his actions did not, and were not intended to, physically harm any person; and because he voluntarily abandoned his ELF activities in 2002 and focused on obtaining a doctoral degree.

The case was investigated by the Marquette office of the FBI and the U.S. Forest Service, with assistance from the Michigan State Police, Michigan Technological University Department of Public Safety, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). It was prosecuted for the United States by Assistant U.S. Attorney Hagen W. Frank. Detroit FBI

TIME: Top 10 Movies of 2008

Saturday, March 28, 2009 Top 10 No comments

1. WALL-E

Most smart filmmakers want to parade their facility with all the tools in the modern movie box. Andrew Stanton, the director and cowriter of the Pixar animated feature WALL-E, experimented with what talking pictures could plausibly do without. Talking, for example: the first third of the movie has almost no dialogue. How about depriving the two main characters — the humble, lonely trash compacter WALL-E and his space princess EVE — of emotional signifiers like a mouth, eyebrows, shoulders, elbows? Yet with all the limitations he imposed on himself and his robot stars, Stanton still connected with a huge audience. Great science-fiction love stories (there aren't many) will do that. So will futurist adventures that evoke the splendor of the movie past. A dirt-of-the-earth guy hooking up with the ultimate ethereal gal, WALL-E and EVE could be the 29th century version of Tracy and Hepburn, or Seth Rogen and any attractive woman. It hardly matters that the movie is not-quite-silent, when it blends art and heart as spectacularly as WALL-E does.

2. Synecdoche, New York

Ambition. That's what most independent films lack, and what the directorial debut of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has, ad infintum, ad gloriam. It's an epic tragicomedy about Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a Schenectady, N.Y., theater director who moves to Manhattan with the gigantic notion of putting on a realistic drama as big as all New York City. A self-styled truth-teller (his full name anagrams to Acted Candor), Caden manages to exasperate or repel the fascinating women (including Catherine Keener, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michelle Williams) who cross his downward path. The project drags on — it's his life's work, and it may take that long to finish — but Kaufman's imagination never falters. The movie keeps getting bigger and weirder and denser and sadder and finnier, till all the pressure on Caden leads to a final implosion. A movie so human you'll want to argue with it, spank it, take it home or give it some Xanax, Synecdoche is the richest, most devious — I'll cut to the chase and say best — live-action film of the year.

3. My Winnipeg

In 1942 the city of Winnipeg held an "If Day," dressing its burghers up as Nazis to show the locals some of the terrors of life under the Third Reich. For Canadian deranged-genius filmmaker Guy Maddin, every day is an If Day: his movies transform his hometown reality into comedy-dramas of sibling rivalry and family life that would give Freud the creeps. So Maddin is not the most reliable reporter. In spite or because of that, My Winnipeg is a trip: a "docufantasia" that mixes the city's history with Maddin family values. He moves back into the home where he grew up, hiring actors to play his relatives — including Ann Savage, the notorious harridan of the 1945 cheapo-noir classic Detour, as his mom. Filming in black-and-white, streaking the frame, explaining the action with silent-movie intertitles, Maddin must want us to understand that, in movies, nothing is real, and everything is true. Oh, and My Winnipeg: it's weird-hilarious.

4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days

In Romania under the Ceausescu regime, abortion was banned, and within 20 years some half a million women had died from having botched illegal abortions. This severe thriller from writer-director Christian Mungiu focuses on Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), a pregnant college student, and her friend Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), who finds a man who'll do the job: a quietly thuggish fellow who calls himself Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov). Remorseless long takes build the suspense as the young women secure a hotel room and, when Bebe explains how they'll have to pay, question whether it's worth the price. Strap yourself in for this minimalist, splendidly acted horror film — and count your blessings that you live in a country where choosing an abortion doesn't mean losing a life.

5. Milk

Affable and driven, Harvey Milk was a San Francisco politician who succeeded by inspiring crowds rather than making backroom deals. The country's first gay city supervisor, he used his energy and intelligence to help homosexuals secure civil rights. This exceptional docudrama — written by Darren Lance Black, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn — covers the last eight years of Milk's life, which ended when he was shot by fellow supervisor Dan White (Josh Brolin). Penn, who’s in nearly every scene, manages the neat trick of merging his star personality with the public figure well known from the 1984 documentary The Life and Times of Harvey Milk. Sunny, pushy and convincingly gay, Penn embodies a man hopeful for the future of his fellows but dreading what he believes is awaiting him. A how-to exercise in marshalling dozens of characters and one big political issue into exemplary, edifying entertainment, Milk is a must-see, right now.

6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

"He was born old." That expression, referring to the prematurely middle-aged among us, must have been what spurred F. Scott Fitzgerald to create his puckish 1922 short story about Benjamin Button, who was born an old man and got a day younger every day. In this greatly expanded, much less frivolous film version, Benjamin's birth year is moved from 1860 to 1918; instead of fighting in the Spanish-American War, Benjamin sees action in World War II. What neither of those times possessed was the technological legerdemain that enables Brad Pitt to play Benjamin, through computer effects work (and old-fashioned makeup), for most of the character's long life. But the most satisfying tricks are performed by writers Eric Roth and Robin Swicord and director David Fincher. They give flesh and feelings to the essentially passive Benjamin and provide him with a willful, glamorous partner: the dancer Daisy (Cate Blanchett). Of all the movie's dazzling effects, the most special are the internal ones. Benjamin, a minority of one, can raise his resignation into wonder, and lift the viewer along with him.

7. Slumdog Millionaire

Who wants to be a millionaire? Not 18-year-old Jamal, though he'd like enough to live on, since he's been scrambling to survive since he and his brother Salim were brutally orphaned as children. But he's gone on a nationwide quiz show hoping that his brief celebrity will catch the attention of the ravishing, unlucky Latika, whom he's loved for most of his life. Simon Beaufoy's script tells the three lives in flashbacks that illuminate India's dynamic and troubled history over the past 15 years (though not, obviously, of the last few weeks). As gaudy wealth and abasing poverty coexist in Mumbai, so Danny Boyle's movie catches the contradictions of slum drama, love story, social document and Bollywood musical in its capacious embrace. With its nonstop pace and fearless dives into affairs of the heart, Slumdog Millionaire is a dervish delight.

8. Iron Man

The weapons designed by arms manufacturer Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) are no sleeker, and his bombs no smarter, than the narrative lines of this marvelous Marvel Comics movie. A tin man who realizes that, if he is to become human, he must build himself a heart — and then a big red metallic airborne suit for buzzing unsuspecting planes and vanquishing his enemies. What a kick it is to see the thing fly. Same with the movie, for, like Tony, Iron Man is the perfect expression of Hollywood's engineering ingenuity. In an excellent year for action films (Wanted, Hellboy II, The Dark Knight and, as you'll soon see, Speed Racer), this was the coolest movie machine.

9. Speed Racer

Opening the week after Iron Man, the Wachowski brothers' race-car movie flopped at the box office. What can we say? Not every avant-garde FX masterpiece receives instant audience validation. This tale of a family of racers — Racer is the family name — exists simultaneously in the 1950s and today, in a live-action world and its own complementary alternate cyber-universe. Operating a pitch of delirious precision, the movie is a rich, cartoonish dream: non-stop Op art, and a triumph of virtual virtuosity. Maybe a lot of civilians didn't go see the picture, but you can bet it attracted the smart boys in Hollywood. They will pilfer its effects and, by next summer, produce a domesticated, more palatable version. My advice: Don't wait for the rip-offs; accept no substitutes. Speed Racer is the future of movies, on DVD now.

10. Encounters at the End of the World

If the German director-explorer Werner Herzog were to write an autobiography, this could be the title, for his 40 years of movies record his need to chronicle the lives of people as obsessed as he. The dramatic movies Aguirre the Wrath of God, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu the Vampire and Fitzcarraldo, and documentaries like The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Grizzly Man and The White Diamond, are all about men with grand or deranged dreams, dizzied by the helium of their aspirations, which drives them to triumph or catastrophe. Even sane men, scientists in the remote clarity of Antarctica, have this intoxicating thirst. Encounters could be called a travelog: on a grant from the National Geographic Society, Herzog spent some time at the McMurdo Research Station, chatting up the scholars, technicians and workmen, following them on their expeditions across the ice and below it. Since Herzog has eyes as restless as they are acute, you'll see wonders here: active volcanoes, string band concerts, singing seals. The strangest, most affecting creatures are the men and women who've slipped down the modern world to end up here. They are adventurers, sometimes tearful with joy, and kindred souls to this great ecstatic filmmaker.

Source: TIME

2008 Foreign Policy Ranking

Friday, March 27, 2009 List No comments

In October 2008, the American journal Foreign Policy, in conjunction with consulting firm A. T. Kearney and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, published a ranking of global cities, based on consultation with Saskia Sassen, Witold Rybczynski, and others. Foreign Policy noted that "[t]he world’s biggest, most interconnected cities help set global agendas, weather transnational dangers, and serve as the hubs of global integration. They are the engines of growth for their countries and the gateways to the resources of their regions."

The rankings are based on the evaluation of 24 metrics in five areas: business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement. The top thirty of the 60 cities ranked were:

Rank	City	Best category (position in that category)
1	New York City	Business Activity and Human Capital (1st)
2	London	Cultural Experience (1st)
3	Paris	Information Exchange (1st)
4	Tokyo	Business Activity (2nd)
5	Hong Kong	Business Activity and Human Capital (5th)
6	Los Angeles	Human Capital (4th)
7	Singapore	Business Activity (6th)
8	Chicago	Human Capital (3rd)
9	Seoul	Information Exchange (5th)
10	Toronto	Cultural Experience (4th)
11	Washington, D.C.	Political Engagement (1st)
12	Beijing	Political Engagement (7th)
13	Brussels	Information Exchange (2nd)
14	Madrid	Information Exchange (9th)
15	San Francisco	Human Capital (12th)
16	Sydney	Human Capital (8th)
17	Berlin	Cultural Experience (8th)
18	Vienna	Political Engagement (9th)
19	Moscow	Cultural Experience (6th)
20	Shanghai	Business Activity (8th)
21	Frankfurt	Business Activity (11th)
22	Bangkok	Political Engagement (13th)
23	Amsterdam	Business Activity (10th)
24	Stockholm	Information Exchange (13th)
25	Mexico City	Cultural Experience (9th)
26	Zürich	Information Exchange (8th)
27	Dubai	Information Exchange (14th)
28	Istanbul	Political Engagement (8th)
29	Boston	Human Capital (9th)
30	Rome	Cultural Experience (15th)

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HMANGAIH VANGIN

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Zing ni chhuak eng mawi tak mai han thlir hi chuan zuamawm tak a ni. Chawhnu lama hlo thlawh paha tlak deng ni sa han tuar erawh hi chuan, khabe leh kiu-ah thlantui a far zung zung mai a, heti em em hian ni hi a sa thei a lo ni maw tih mai awl a ni. Chu ni ngai chu khawchhak kil atangin tuk chhiar sen loh a chhuak tawh a, a chhuah zat chhiar seng lo mah ila, a chhuah zat chiah khawtlang kawlkilah a tla leh a ni tih kan hria.
Turnipui khi
Hringfa engzat hi nge a enna zara nunga, a lumna hmanga chawm len ni tawh tih kan hre lo. Chutiang thil hre ber tur turnipui lah chu ngawi rengin a kal ngaiin a kal a, duhsak bik leh thlei bik nei hauh lovin a chhuakin a tla mawlh mawlh mai a ni. Chu chu hria-in pathlawi lungleng Laltanpuia chuan,
Turni khian kalkham hmel duh a tawng ngai lo
Kei zawng ka lawmna tur reng a’n maw,
Thaikawi thiam dawi ang dawm mah la
|uanrel kal Parte i kham leh thin!
.. tiin a tuanrel kham thei khawp Parteii chu hlain a lo chawi tawh a ni. Ni nge a chawimawi a bialnu tih pawh hrethiam chiah lo mah ila, hla lungkuai tak zawng a ni phawt mai.
Vawmkur Mual
Sawi tak ang khan, a changa a lum ai nuam tak hi chhun pachangah chuan nelawm lo tak a ni. Tl^k deng ni sa nelawm lohzia chu Vawmkur mual mawnga bung nupa tuak khatte hian an hre chiang teh asin. Chaw fak zawhah hmanhmawh takin helai tlak deng pangper hi an pan a. Lo mawng atangin a thiangin an bung dun rial rial a, an hah em avangin an thlan tuiin an hmai a tirang niu niau tawh a, mahse, hah hre ve ngai lo ang mai hian an tang sauh sauh tho mai. An tan hahthlak mah se, chu ni sa chu an hlo thlawh tanpuitu a ni tih an hria a, ni sa chuan an hlo rih thlukte chu a em hlum vek dawn tih an hre tlat a, ni sa chu tlanchhiatsan a hnehin an ^m zawk a ni.
Chu mai a ni lo, chutiang nunphung thlakhlelh nachang hretu chhungkua-ah an seilian tlat a. A fal lehnghala hmangaih berte nena insi riala hlo thlawh dun nawmzia leh hlimawmzia chu an lo hre fo tawh a, chuvangin, ni sa vawl vawl chuan an inhmangaihna leh inthlâkhlelhna a em dal zo lo. Hlo r$t khawk tawn tawn chungin an titi a, an inmelh a, an nui dun a. Vaivut khu, tho thak leh thlansa kara inhrethiam taka an han insiai zauh te chu a man chhiar sen rual loh khawpin a hlu tlat a ni.
Chawlhna tui kam
Hahdam tan chuan chawlh hi thil naran a ni ang bawkin, thlan tla tan chuan thlifim hi a hlu bik a. An sira thing hlimah chuan inhaw miah lo tih hriat tak hian an han thu thlandai a. An pual liau liauva a hranpa-a lo thleng hlim ni awm tak thli fim lo thaw heuh heuh chu nuam ti takin an dawng dun a. Tuithawla tui an han khiat khawlh khawlh a. Thlan tla khawpa hna thawh chu mi tamtakin an hlauh leh an tlanchhiatsan ni mah se, anni nupa chuan thawhrimna leh hrehawmna chu an hmachhawn a; inhmangaihna lantirna remchangah an hmang tlat a, an lakah ni sa chu a tlawm der mai. Hausak te chu duh te pawh an duh ve ang, mahse an retheih vangin an vui ngai lova, an phunnawi hek lo.
Vawmkur mual lama lo neih hi tam tak chuan an peih lo. Tlakdeng nisa-in a hem ngawt ngawt a, haw kawng lah a chho ulh kikawi si, thalah tui a awm tha lo lehnghal nen; motor emaw tawlailir emaw kal theihna lama neih an duh deuh vek zawk a ni.
Lo sul haw hun
Tlai a lo ni a, ni suk chen awrh a awm ta tihah Lianthuama leh Biakngheti te nupa pawh zawi muangin an rawn inawi chho bek bek zel a. Biakngheti chu a hmasa zawkah dawrawn khat thura thlai rah phurin a kal a, a sam chhawlleng chu thlan tuiin a tihnawm chap a, a khat tawkin a hui leh pap thin a, a hnungah chuan a pasal Lianthuama’n a rawn chhawm a, ani pawhin empai khat thurin hnephnawl a phur bawk a, a nghawngkawl hrui chuan a uai kun chal a, a ke veilam a khai rual chiah chuan a rum nghat nghat zel a, thlanin a bual huh vek tawh a.
Kal pahin Lianthuama chuan an fanu upa ber Chhante-i a ngaihtuah nauh nauh a, vawiin an sikul chawlh ni a ni a, a naute pahnih a lo awm ang chu; rin tur dang awm hek lo le, an han ring ve ngawt zel mai a ni a, mahse a naupan ai hian a fel fe reuh a, a che fel leh thlep thin. Lehkha a thiam theih avangin thenawmte pawhin sâp sikula lut ve atan an $t a, Lianthuama pawh chuan sâp sikula han dah ve chhin pawh chu a châk ru hle thin a, a fanu chu thenawm naute aiin a nep bik hauh lovang tih pawh a hria, mahse sorkar sikul-ah hian pakhatna a ni ziah tho a, an zirtirtute lahin an duhsak em em a, a zahpuiawm lo tawk chuan a thiam ve tho vang tiin a ngaihtuah a.
Aizawl bazar chawmtu
Kawtchhuahah an faten an lo hmuak a. Thingtlang nu leh pa tan chuan lo sul haw hmuak fate hmel han hmuh hian hah a dam sawng sawng a, dam man hi a awm ngawih ngawih mai a ni.
Fate nena inkai diah diah chunga an in an thlen meuh chuan khua a thim dawn ruai tawh a, an thlai rah phurh chu chhuatah an bun vum thur a, a lian deuh deuhte chu bang thlang lamah a lum thla rum rum a. Naupang hlim an te chel chul a. A chhia chhia chu an ei turin an dah hrang a, tha tha chu zing Bus-ah Aizawl bazar lama zawrh turin an thawn dawn a ni.
Mahni thlai thar zinga a tha ei phak lova a chhia chhia ei kumtluan mai chu mi tamtak chuan a retheihthlak an ti ngawt ang. Lianthuama te nupa hi chuan retheihthlak an ti lova, a tha tha eithei chhungkuate an itsik lova, chutiang dinhmuna awmtirtu Pathian lakah an vui hek lo. Chu ai chuan, pawisa neite chuan an thlai tha thate chu leisak sela chumi manin an fate zirlaibu te an lei thei dawn tih an hre tlat a ni.
A nuam a sin
Khawpui nuho office haw angin an awmpuite tirh tur an nei ve lem lo. Anmahni ngeiin an thlai hawnte chu an han chingfel zung zung a, chumi zawhah thutthlengah an han thu vang vang a. “Ka nu a lo haw hun chuan...” tia nilenga thlahlel taka lo nghaktu an fate chuan an nu leh pate hnathawh kawr bal leh thlan rim nam rum rum te chu hnualsuat phah hauh lovin, an malchunga lawn an inchuh a, an lo pawm chuk chuk a.
A nu malchunga thut pahin an pang ber chuan “Anu, feh chu a nuam em?” tiin a zawt a.
Biakngheti chuan chhang mai lovin a pasal hmel hlim tak chu a va melh ralh a, Lianthuama chuan hrethiam takin a lo siai zauh a. A fanu, engmah hre thiam ve lo lam chu a hawi a.
“Nuam e. Mami, ‘feh’ hi a nuam a sin!”
An siamtu tan chuan chu chhungkua chu an va han hlu dawn tehlul em! Lengzem

India's Tata rolls out world's cheapest car

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Economic 1 comment

India's Tata Motors on Monday launched the world's cheapest car, the Nano, hoping to revolutionise travel for millions and buck a slump in auto sales caused by the global economic crisis.

Company boss Ratan Tata said the no-frills vehicle, slated to cost just 100,000 rupees (2,000 dollars) for the basic model, will get India's middle-class urban population off motorcycles and into safer, affordable cars.

"I think we are at the gates of offering a new form of transport to the people of India and later, I hope, other markets elsewhere in the world," he said, describing the launch as a "milestone."

"The present economic situation makes it somewhat... more attractive to the buying public," he told reporters in Mumbai ahead of a glitzy official unveiling ceremony at 7:30 pm (1400 GMT).

Potential owners of the car -- which is just over three metres (10 feet) long and has a top speed of 105 kilometres (65 miles) per hour -- can apply between April 9 and 25, Tata managing director Ravi Kant said.

A ballot will then select 100,000 people to be the first to get the keys to the vehicle and deliveries will start in early July 2009, he added.

Even affluent Indians are eyeing up the Nano, which has a two-cylinder engine and four-speed manual transmission but no air conditioning, electric windows or power steering, although deluxe versions will be available.

"This is a value-for-money car," said Hasmukh Kakadia, 39, a Mumbai investment analyst.

Shares in Tata Motors on India's 30-share Sensex index jumped eight percent in early trade but finally closed 2.8 percent up on profit-taking.

Car dealers say they have been flooded with queries about the Nano, whose debut was delayed after violent protests over the acquisition of farmland to build the plant, forcing Tata Motors to shift from West Bengal state.

But the new plant in Gujarat in western India will not be ready until late this year or early 2010, Tata said, meaning production must come from existing factories, reducing output and increasing waiting times for deliveries.

Kant said 250,000 to 500,000 cars could be produced from the Gujarat plant from next year but admitted some customers may have to wait more than 12 months in the meantime to take possession of their Nano. AP

2009 10 Best Cars

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2009 BMW 3-series / M3

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine; rear- or 4-wheel-drive; 4–5-passenger; 2-door coupe, 2-door convertible, 4-door sedan, or 5-door wagon

BASE PRICE: $34,225–$68,675

ENGINES: DOHC 24-valve 3.0-liter inline-6, 230 hp, 200 lb-ft; twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 24-valve 3.0-liter inline-6, 300 hp, 300 lb-ft; twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 24-valve 3.0-liter diesel inline-6, 265 hp, 425 lb-ft; DOHC 32-valve 4.0-liter V-8, 414 hp, 295 lb-ft

TRANSMISSIONS: 6-speed auto with manumatic shifting, 7-speed dual-clutch automated manual, 6-speed manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 108.7 in Length: 178.2–181.8 in Width: 70.2–71.5 in Height: 54.1–57.0 in
Curb weight: 3350–4150 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 13–23/20–36 mpg

2009 Cadillac CTS / CTS-V

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, rear- or 4-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door sedan

BASE PRICE: $36,880–$59,995

ENGINES: DOHC 24-valve 3.6-liter V-6, 263 or 304 hp, 253 or 273 lb-ft; supercharged and intercooled pushrod 16-valve 6.2-liter V-8, 556 hp, 551 lb-ft

TRANSMISSIONS: 6-speed auto with manumatic shifting, 6-speed manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 113.4 in Length: 191.6 in Width: 72.5 in Height: 58.0 in
Curb weight: 3900–4300 lb

FUEL ECONOMY (mfr’s est):
EPA city/highway driving: 13–18/19–26 mpg

2009 Chevrolet Corvette

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 3-door targa or 2-door roadster

BASE PRICE: $47,895–$52,550

ENGINE TYPE: pushrod 16-valve 6.2-liter V-8
Power (SAE net): 430 or 436 bhp @ 5900 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 424 or 428 lb-ft @ 4600 rpm

TRANSMISSIONS: 6-speed auto with manumatic shifting, 6-speed manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 105.7 in Length: 174.6 in Width: 72.6 in Height: 49.0 in
Curb weight: 3200–3350 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 15–16/25–26 mpg

2009 Honda Accord

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door sedan or 2-door coupe

BASE PRICE: $21,445–$29,475

ENGINES: DOHC 16-valve 2.4-liter inline-4, 177 or 190 hp, 161 or 162 lb-ft; SOHC 24-valve 3.5-liter V-6, 271 hp, 251 or 254 lb-ft

TRANSMISSIONS: 5-speed auto, 5- or 6-speed manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 107.9–110.2 in Length: 190.9–194.3 in Width: 72.7–72.8 in Height: 56.4–58.1 in
Curb weight: 3250–3600 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 17–22/25–31 mpg

2009 Honda Fit

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 5-door wagon

BASE PRICE: $15,220

ENGINE TYPE: SOHC 16-valve 1.5-liter inline-4
Power (SAE net): 117 bhp @ 6600 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 106 lb-ft @ 4800 rpm

TRANSMISSIONS: 5-speed auto, 5-speed auto with manumatic shifting, 5-speed manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 98.4 in Length: 161.6 in Width: 66.7 in Height: 60.0 in

Curb weight: 2500–2650 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 27–28/33–35 mpg

2009 Infiniti G37

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, rear- or 4-wheel-drive, 4- or 5-passenger, 2-door coupe or 4-door sedan

BASE PRICE: $34,065–$36,715

ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 24-valve 3.7-liter V-6
Power (SAE net): 328 or 330 bhp @ 7000 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 269 or 270 lb-ft @ 5200 rpm

TRANSMISSIONS: 7-speed auto with manumatic shifting, 6-speed manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 112.2 in Length: 183.1–187.0 in Width: 69.8–71.8 in Height: 54.7–57.8 in
Curb weight: 3650–3850 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 17–18/25–26 mpg

2009 Jaguar XF

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 4-door sedan

BASE PRICE: $49,975–$64,475

ENGINES: DOHC 32-valve 4.2-liter V-8, 300 hp, 310 lb-ft; supercharged and intercooled DOHC 32-valve 4.2-liter V-8, 420 hp, 413 lb-ft

TRANSMISSION: 6-speed auto with manumatic shifting

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 114.5 in Length: 195.3 in Width: 73.9 in Height: 57.5 in
Curb weight: 4100–4250 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 15–16/23–25 mpg

2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door roadster

ESTIMATED BASE PRICE: $22,000–$28,000

ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 16-valve 2.0-liter inline-4
Power (SAE net): 158 or 166 bhp @ 6700 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 140 lb-ft @ 5000 rpm

TRANSMISSIONS: 6-speed auto with manumatic shifting; 5- or 6-speed manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 91.7 in Length: 157.3 in Width: 67.7 in Height: 49.0–49.4 in
Curb weight: 2450–2650 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 20–22/27–28 mpg

2009 Porsche Boxster and Cayman

VEHICLE TYPE: mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door roadster or 3-door hatchback

ESTIMATED BASE PRICE: $47,000–$61,000

ENGINES: DOHC 24-valve 2.7-liter flat-6, 245 hp, 201 lb-ft; DOHC 3.4-liter flat-6, 295 hp, 251 lb-ft

TRANSMISSIONS: 5-speed auto with manumatic shifting, 5- or 6-speed manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 95.1 in Length: 171.6–172.1 in Width: 70.9 in Height: 50.9–51.4 in
Curb weight: 2900–3100 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 18–20/25–29 mpg

2009 Volkswagen GTI

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 3- or 5-door hatchback

BASE PRICE: $23,640–$24,240

ENGINE TYPE: turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 16-valve 2.0-liter inline-4
Power (SAE net): 200 bhp @ 5100 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 207 lb-ft @ 1800 rpm

TRANSMISSIONS: 6-speed manual, 6-speed dual-clutch automated manual

DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 101.5 in Length: 165.7 in Width: 69.3 in Height: 58.4 in
Curb weight: 3150–3250 lb

FUEL ECONOMY:
EPA city/highway driving: 21–22/29–31 mpg

Source: Car And Driver

Why does the Middle East dominate the headlines so often?

Monday, March 23, 2009 Historical 2 comments

One obvious answer is oil, the lifeblood of modern economies. Without oil to run factories, heat homes, fuel transportation and provide energy and raw materials for thousands of uses, the economies of many nations would grind to a halt. The crucial importance of oil alone ensures that the Middle East will remain in the headlines for years.

But there's more that keeps the Middle East in the news. It is the birthplace of the world's three great monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Too often it has not been just their birthplace, but their battlefield, with adherents warring against each other for control of territory they consider holy.

Nowhere are these conflicts more obvious than in Israel, and specifically in Jerusalem. It's hard to imagine how so much history, religion and culture can collide and stand in literal heaps. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Temple Mount, flash point for many a conflict over the centuries.

Today one can watch Muslims praying at the Dome of the Rock atop the Temple Mount, Jews praying at the Western Wall barely a stone's throw below and Christians praying along the Via Dolorosa and at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher a few hundred yards to the north and west. And all around one sees the rubble of the centuries of conflict over this holy place.

Who will write the next chapter in the history of this troubled city? Believe it or not, the final chapters are already written—prophesied centuries ago in the pages of the Bible. Ominously, they mesh remarkably well with today's headlines.

Source: The Good News

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