April 2010
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“while pierrot le fou marks the beginnings of godard’s engagement with the comic...”
– drew morton, godard’s comic strip mise-en-scène, senses of cinema, issue 54 [1]
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BBC Press Office: Global poll: Wide... →
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC World Service global poll suggests that dissatisfaction with free market capitalism is widespread, with an average of only 11% across 27 countries saying that it works well and that greater regulation is not a good idea.
In only two countries do more than one in five feel that capitalism works well as it stands, according to the poll...
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The Food Nightmare Beneath Our Feet: We're Running... →
For every unit of food we consume, using the conventional agricultural methods employed in the U.S., six times that amount of topsoil is lost. Since, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the average person eats a ton of food each year, that works out to 12,000 pounds (5,443 kilograms) of topsoil. John Jeavons estimates that using current farming practices we have 40 to...
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“if there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake,...”
– aristotle, nicomachean ethics (c. 325 bc)
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“chemical fertilizers (made from natural gas), pesticides (made from petroleum),...”
– green peace corp., industrial farming vs. sustainable farming
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