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In Nigeria, a Preview of an Overcrowded Planet
“In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people — a population about as big as that of the present-day United States — will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico.”
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For drinking water, Mr. Louis said, his family relies on a local well. But he lives from hand to mouth and cannot afford water purification tablets; the free supply he got in 2010 ran out long ago. So he gambles.
‘If you make it to the hospital,” he said, “you survive the cholera.’
The cover story of today’s New York Times, detailing Haiti’s cholera epidemic. -
Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones is a convenient surveillance tool in many situations, but it is unclear if using such technology without a warrant violates the Constitution.
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Yeah, I’m with this.
“Theo”, an airy house anthem from UK producer Fort Romeau, is named Best New Track. Listen to it here.
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We make physical cinema: we love having our characters go through doors or over walls, we love doing fight and chase scenes.
Luc Dardenne, discussing the films he makes with his brother Jean-Pierre in the latest issue of Film Comment. -
His first bill for location scouting was $13.42.
Castle Rock Entertainment producer Martin Shafer in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, describing director Whit Stillman’s frugality on his latest picture, Damsels in Distress -
What I like and find liberating in dialogue comedy is that the characters, and what they say, are not me…. These are fleeting thoughts and observations and not presented as truths but as something that illuminates the character and the dynamic between the characters. This kind of dialogue is thesis and antithesis — and we never get to a synthesis.
Damsels in Distress director Whit Stillman in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine
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