Climate will be the next bank chief’s biggest challenge. Reshaping global development: The United States nominated Ajay Banga, who used to head Mastercard, to lead the World Bank. Funds from a new law will pay for cleaning up thousands of wells. Ohio train derailment: The Environmental Protection Agency ordered the operator of the train that was carrying hazardous chemicals to pay all cleanup costs.Īn oil rush in reverse: The National Park Service has started plugging abandoned oil wells, a source of pollution. But well-meaning regulations on fair water distribution stood in the way. He saw them as most of us see them: “tremors at the edge of our vision,” he is fond of saying.Ī missed opportunity in California: This winter’s torrential rains could have helped replenish depleted aquifers. Sen wasn’t much of a birder before he began this film in 2019. This is a gift of living with wild beings in the city - the nonhuman kind at least. A gasp went up in the small human crowd that had been watching him quietly. A Eurasian eagle-owl’s wings can span 4 to 6 feet. He preened, fluffing his feathers a bit, and then he flew. He sees everything as interesting.” (Hard relate.)Ī robin settled on a higher branch, called out, flew away. Then why was Flaco so fascinated by it? Barrett shrugged. Might Flaco eat the raccoon, I whispered to Barrett, who was there, too. That afternoon, a raccoon climbed up the tree behind him, chose a crook, curled himself up and went to sleep.įlaco turned his head, almost all the way around, as owls can. I first saw Flaco in the North Woods, which was about the furthest he had traveled from the zoo. “Anyone who has been underestimated can relate.” “Flaco made it,” said David Barrett, one of his most avid followers, who goes by the Twitter handle BirdCentralPark. The zoo tried to lure Flaco back, playing recorded calls of eagle-owls. 2 after a vandal cut the stainless steel mesh of his enclosure, becoming the only Eurasian eagle-owl known to be living in the wild in North America. If you haven’t been following his story, here’s the gist: Flaco escaped the zoo on Feb. Flaco was sitting on a bare oak, along a paved road. So, he wasn’t hard to find the afternoon I met Sen. They track where he is and share on social media. “All That Breathes” is currently streaming on HBO Max.īirders of New York are avid noticers of Flaco. Birds are literally falling off the sky into their tiny basement.” “They soldier on in working, in doing actual concrete labor, while maintaining a kind of wryness, which is kind of an interesting psychic crutch in how to deal with things, especially when you have the front row seats to the apocalypse. “They just unsentimentally and stoically just sort of carry on,” Sen said. The film makes you think about many things because of how Nadeem and Saud function in the world, under all kinds of duress - financial, political, and emotional. Perhaps if Run with the Hunted had captured a genuine sense of being lost, it might have felt more moving.Over the last 15 years, the brothers have cared for tens of thousands of injured black kites. as a private eye, the movie doesn't quite click. Despite fine performances by Forsythe, Perlman, and Mark Boone Junior as the "Fagin" figures and Whitlock Jr. In transferring Dickens' 1838 novel story to the contemporary screen, writer-director John Swab doesn't seem to have asked how modern times might impact this kind of criminal scheme. Just about everything feels slightly disconnected. It's as if the movie dictated that all of its characters have only one single choice, designed to move the plot forward, with no other possible choices available to complicate matters. Moreover, the grown-up Loux and her brother don't seem to have any problem with what Oscar did, seeming to view him as some kind of savior. Then things take a wrong turn as young Oscar decides to take violent action rather than speak to his parents about Loux and Amos' abuse. Run with the Hunted starts well, as Oscar's father, played by William Forsythe, gives him advice about helping others. Taking inspiration from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, this crime drama offers a few powerful moments and strong performances, but it suffers from a general lack of logic and emotional honesty.
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