The Wall Street Journal reports that Exxon has cut off funding to groups that questioned the validity of global warming and connections to fossil fuels. The article says Exxon states that, "climate-science models that link greenhouse-gas concentrations to global warming are getting more reliable ."
MANOHLA DARGIS of the NY Times writes: "Forget buckets of blood. Nothing says horror like one of those tubs of artificially buttered, nonorganic popcorn at the concession stand. That, at least, is one of the unappetizing lessons to draw from one of the scariest movies of the year, “Food, Inc.,” an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding, Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy."
Set up a haunted halloween awards pre-show red carpet scene in the front yard or entryway to welcome Spookies "nominees". Unfurl our plastic red carpet and bedeck it with lifelike black crows and tombstones. Go all out with a large cardboard coffin with the lid slightly ajar to reveal a bloody appendage. Use a metallic paint pen to scrawl on the coffin in large block letters, "Guest Who Arrived without a Costume, R.I.P." Snap Polaroid pictures of each guest's grand entrance and tack them to a corkboard.
As the world warms and oceans rise, coastal forests of mangrove, beach grasses, tupelo and bald cypress help protect coastlines from the ravages of hurricanes and typhoons.