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...tradition of the solo cowboy who needs a scurvy town to clean up, one corpse at a time, Eli lands in an outpost run by the wily, chatty Carnegie (Gary Oldman, having infectious fun with the villain role) and overrun by his gang. One of the few readers in a world of illiterates, Carnegie wants what Eli has, for he believes that the Bible's rhetoric can subdue men more successfully than fear and firearms can. "They'll do exactly what I tell 'em," he says, "if the words are from the Book." (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible...
...have to do it anyway - fossil fuels are running out. You gain nothing by not doing anything, but gain a lot in innovative industries and jobs by supporting the change to renewable energy. If the U.S. wants to be part of the new world order and not get overrun by those who have changed tack, they should listen to their President. Hans Ramlov, COPENHAGEN...
...H1N1 virus had suddenly become more deadly or dangerous. Instead, by declaring a national emergency, the White House will allow hospitals and governments on the local level to more rapidly prepare triage sites and procedures to handle any future surge in sick patients. A hospital in danger of being overrun by H1N1 patients would be allowed to segregate them in a separate site for treatment, which might slow the spread of the disease. It's not unlike declaring an emergency before a hurricane hits landfall - the action removes legal barriers that might slow a rapid response. (See what you need...
...miniseries starts in the mid - 19th century, when nature lovers began urging that the expanding nation set aside areas of wilderness to remain undeveloped and unspoiled. Their cautionary tale was Niagara Falls, which by the 1860s was "almost ruined" - overrun by hucksters and tourist traps, with nearly every good view privately owned. Unless the government acted, advocates like naturalist John Muir warned, Yosemite and Yellowstone would end up the same way. "To Europeans," reads narrator Peter Coyote, Niagara "was proof that the United States was still a backward, uncivilized nation...
...training in weapons and explosives. If that is true, then Zazi could be a very valuable source of information on how al-Qaeda trains jihadis now. What U.S. counterterrorism officials know about jihadi training camps is based mostly on intelligence gleaned after al-Qaeda's bases in Afghanistan were overrun in 2001. Relatively little is known about the camps in Pakistan, which are located close to the border with Afghanistan...