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...Giving Earth a Voice I am an environmental educator who works internationally, and I bought the "Heroes of the Environment" special issue with great interest [Oct. 29]. However, I was disappointed to see Virgin tycoon Richard Branson alongside real environmental heroes such as Gaia theorist James Lovelock and Green Belt Movement co-founder Wangari Maathai. Although the writer defended Branson's inclusion, I am not convinced. I acknowledge that he is giving a large sum of money to scientific research for developing clean fuels, and this will certainly help our fight. But his environmental efforts are akin to offsetting long...
...been done earlier," says Byford. "We're a multimedia broadcaster increasingly organizing around a multimedia platform." But whether or not these cuts deliver the benefits he envisages, the spectacle of the BBC targeting core services and preserving frothier output fuels concerns that it has lost its reason for being. Richard North, author of the 2007 book Scrap the BBC!, calls the broadcaster a "grotesque monopoly" and advocates its privatization. "Broadcasting now needs no more control or support than the print media," he says...
...Richard Stengel, MANAGING EDITOR
...invited. “Emergency & I” is not a healthy way of dealing with late adolescent alienation. It doesn’t transcend the emotions that compel listeners to identify with it in the first place. But sometimes not enough is enough. —Staff reviewer Richard S. Beck can be reached at rbeck@fas.harvard.edu...
...pimp, and pimps don’t commit suicide.” Such is the reasoning of Boxer Santaros as he struggles to save the world in Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales.” Played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (“The Scorpion King”), Santaros mysteriously turns up at the beginning of the film with amnesia. He’s a movie star who co-writes a screenplay (with a porn star, no less) about the end of the world as we know it. What...