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DVD picks: Crude Awakening and Jesus Camp
December 12, 2007Crude Awakening: the Oil Crash Producers: Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack Production company: Mongrel Media 90 minutes Are believers in peak oil a lunatic fringe? Not according to Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack’s compelling and disturbing Crude...
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French youth revolt spotlights deep inequities
December 7, 2007News Analysis PARIS — Two years have passed since the “insurrection of the suburbs” of working-class and immigrant youth in this city’s impoverished outskirts. The violent rebellion of 2005, which included young people setting fire to...
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Two must see films
December 7, 2007No Country for Old Men Directed by Ethan and Joel Coen Miramax, 2007 Rated R, 122 minutes In case you’re wondering, don’t wonder anymore. The brothers Ethan and Joel Coen have done it again in “No...
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Kid Nation, harmless TV or capitalist reality?
December 7, 2007CBS television’s “Kid Nation” may profess to be a highbrow social experiment mixed with reality TV, but can a group of early teens and preteens build a viable “society” in a New Mexico ghost town abandoned...
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Toxics and children
December 7, 2007Here is a right to life issue. We’ve been hearing a lot in recent weeks about the dangers of toys from China that are contaminated with lead. But the true dimensions of the toxic threat against...
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