Smog has darkened Beijing's skies and sullied the city's reputation, but northern China's persistent pollution plague is now getting more artful treatment from one of China's most famous filmmakers.
Herzog likes to say that he is "clinically sane and completely professional," but he is keenly aware that his reputation is otherwise—"One of the most persistent rumors plaguing me is that I'm a crazy director doing crazy things"—and he is fascinated by the myriad ways that people form this impression.
As described by top commanders in Iraq and senior policy makers in Washington, the campaign was a mix of military tactics, political maneuverings, media management and a generous dollop of cash for quickly rebuilding war-ravaged cities -- a formula that, if it survives the test of time, could become a model for future fighting against the persistent insurrections plaguing Iraq.
Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld (Op-Ed, May 11) call for the creation of independent forensic testing laboratories to avoid the persistent errors that plague analyses of crime scene evidence by police laboratories.
Every country in modern history with market-oriented institutions most notably, secure private-property rights—is immune to the famines and persistent hunger that plague much of sub-Saharan Africa, North Korea and other places lacking reasonably free markets.
Still, these thoughts became pervasive and persistent enough to plague me with guilt and interfere even more with my recovery.
Tusa has cultivated a dark, intensely lyrical novel about the horrors, fears, and the persistent anxieties that plagued the "Big Easy" in the years after Katrina decimated their normal ways of life.
Issues such as disparities in health and education, income inequality, high unemployment, voter disenfranchisement, mass incarceration, and persistent poverty continue to plague the community.
Using a pro football analogy, it's past time for the President to rethink his economic game plan, change some of his key players if need be, and call some audibles, lots and lots of audibles, until he finds most of those missing jobs and greatly reduces the plague of persistent income inequality.
The north-central region of New Mexico surrounding Santa Fe and Albuquerque was identified as a persistent focus of human plague cases, and it appears to be the predominate region for current cases.
