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Except that Moore isn't making works of fiction (though his critics, on the left and the right, might say he is). He's achieved his eminence in the documentary--that noble, educational film form that most moviegoers find as appealing as a visit to the dentist. In the kingdom of cinema genres, the documentary falls somewhere between food taster and peasant advocate...
...Kenya isn't the only country that's gotten caught up in the excitement over jatropha. Last December, an Air New Zealand jet powered by a jatropha/kerosene blend made a successful test flight. China, Brazil and even Myanmar have promoted it heavily, sometimes forcing farmers to plant it. In India, jatropha has been planted on hundreds of thousands of acres of land. But, like the farmers in Kibwezi, farmers in these other countries have also experienced problems growing the plant. In India, for example, a test project at several agricultural colleges produced seed yields of only 200 grams per plant...
Awkie interns. Yes, we know medical students need training and Seattle Grace is a "teaching" hospital, but let's get real--the Chief isn't cutting Lexie, and the other interns are just taking up valuable oxygen that could be healing patients. Prediction: Megan won't be the last intern to get cut, but a few annoying and incompetent ones will somehow survive the merger. Lexie will cry more. And more...
...rest of the episode trying to foment a revolution to oust Jim (who, granted, has kind of been a self-righteous jerk lately). Meanwhile, Jim and Michael struggle to figure out how to distribute the cost-of-living raises fairly—since, due to budget cuts, there isn't enough money to go around...
...Miliband, who now tweets as @DMiliband, was beaten in the race to join Twitter by an impostor whose elegiac tweet on Michael Jackson's death was widely quoted by credulous media. "So far it's all been quite amusing," says McCarthy. "David Miliband talking about Michael Jackson's death isn't going to cause a foreign policy crisis whereas David Miliband saying, 'It's all the fault of the Jews,' could bring about World War III." (See TIME's complete Michael Jackson coverage...