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Today's sobering story on how economic turmoil could blunt climate - friendly energy plans, by Elisabeth Rosenthal, implies that a new kind of climate and energy trance may indeed be nigh — not one created just by dropping prices for coal and oil but also by the urgency of a global economic retreat.
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Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.
Despite bringing in five new players during the winter break — including Portuguese striker Hugo Almeida and Hungarian front - man Adam Szalai — and replacing coach Michael Frontzeck with successful ex-Bremen coach, Thomas Schaaf, it was same old story of HDI - Arena despair when the spring term begin on Saturday with a sobering 2 - 1 home loss to newly - promoted Darmstadt.
The story of becoming sober more than eight years ago is one Mr. Johnson tells with candor, a key element in the biography of a 35 - year - old who gained national attention for coming out as gay to his Massachusetts high school football team, and who achieved the legislative pinnacle of New York City government on Wednesday, becoming the speaker of the New York City Council.
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Having been on the Croisette before with his debut film Un 32 août sur Terrre (Un Certain Regard), and the Directors» Fortnight was home for his epic short Next Floor and sobering Polytechnique, the Quebecois helmer saw his critically lauded Incendies and Enemy receive a pass from the fest, but it was this work that ultimately convinced backers with deep pockets to have the auteur filmmaker move onto large - scale productions (Prisoners, Story of Us, the Blade Runner sequel), and in turn Sicario is now among the hopefuls for the Palme d'Or.
As with any Holocaust story, the inescapable gravity of the fact that these horrors really happened inside civilization not so long ago impresses a sobering sense of reality on the viewer.
Alsenas blends friendship, romance, and musical theater with some sobering topics in this story, offering readers the opportunity to think through some weighty matters on their own.
So when a fellow writer me to a story on how shoppers find books on Amazon, I found the information informative, sobering, but not too surprising after I thought about it.
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The story is, on the whole, a lot soberer.
My friend and colleague Libby Rosenthal has a sobering story in The Times today on the contrast between Norway's grand plan to become carbon neutral by 2030 and the reality on the ground in a country with an economy built around oil and gas production.
Updated below, 12:51 p.m. A comprehensive and sobering Associated Press story by Dina Cappiello provides a valuable update on how United States policies promoting exports of coal are undercutting domestic efforts to restrict emissions of carbon dioxide, the heat - trapping gas released when fossil fuels are burned.
(A similarly sobering look at how Rio's divisions and issues were little different than those in Bali can be found in this archive of stories on the summit from The Times.
Before the ink is even dry on that story, revised estimates from the same «renowned» experts offer even «more sobering» data.
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