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BUJUMBURA, Burundi - If we need any more proof that life is unfair, it is that subsistence villagers here in Africa will pay with their lives for our refusal to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

When we think of climate change, we tend to focus on Alaskan villages or New Orleans hurricanes. But the people who will suffer the worst will be those living in countries like this, even though they don't contribute at all to global warming.

My win-a-trip journey with a student and teacher has taken us to Burundi, which the World Bank's latest report shows to be the poorest country in the world. People in Burundi have an annual average income of $100, nearly one child in five dies before the age of 5, and life expectancy is 45.

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Based on the novel by Susan Minot and adapted for the screen by Minot with Michael Cunningham, this drama was directed by Lajos Koltar. Two pairs of real-life mothers and daughters - Vanessa Regrave and Natasha Richardsonm and Meryl Streep and Mamie Gummer - portray, respectively, a mother and her daughter and the mother's best friend at different stages in life, Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord (Redgrave) reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters, Constance (Richardson) and...

Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, a brief accident, sexual material, and language - Movies 16.

Ratatouille (?)

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Starring Mandy Moore, John Krasinski and Robin Williams. Ben Murphy and his fiance, Sadie Jones, have always dreamed of getting married in a traditional wedding at the family church. The problem is St. Augustine's only has one wedding slot available in the next two years, and its charismatic pastor, Reverend Frank, won't bless Ben and Sadie's union until they pass his patented, foolproof marriage-prep course. Rated PG-13 for sexual humor and language, running time 100 minutes. Starts Tuesday. (Cape West Cine)

'Ratatouille'

Starring the voices of Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Peter Sohn, Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett and Peter O'Toole. Remy is a little rat with big dreams of becoming a world-class chef. So he makes a home under a fancy Parisian restaurant and forms an unlikely bond with a lowly garbage boy, Linguini, that will take them both to new, unimagined culinary heights, if Remy doesn't get caught by the real chefs first. Rated G, running time 110 minutes. (Town Plaza Cinema)

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"Evening" (PG-13) Boasting an ensemble of Hollywood's best actresses, this drama is unabashedly sentimental but still effective. Ann (Vanessa Redgrave) is dying. Her two adult daughters -- reduced from the book's five kids via three marriages, an extra layer of soap operatic entanglement that the filmmakers wisely jettison -- have come home to await the inevitable. As she's waking from a nap, Ann groggily mumbles something about Harris, a name that Constance (Redgrave's real-life daughter Natash...

"Live Free or Die Hard" (PG-13) "Live Free or Die Hard" doesn't strain for novelty, staying comfortably within the plot conventions of the earlier episodes (and of Bruce Willis' recent run-the-gauntlet thriller "16 Blocks"). McClane, who has "borrowed" an unmarked car to visit his resentful daughter at her New Jersey college, is assigned to pick up a nearby free-lance hacker linked to a high-security Advertisementbreach in the nation's cyber-infrastructure. Matt Farrell (Justin Long) is everythi...

"Ratatouille" (G) "Ratatouille" may be the first Pixar movie that is so advanced, so sophisticated, it doesn't feel like it was made for kids. On a fundamental level, sure, children will probably enjoy watching the animated adventures of Remy, a plucky Parisian rat who leaves the colony to pursue his dream of becoming a gourmet chef. But there's nothing silly or childlike about it. If you st

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Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be

hotspots of life in the cold southern ocean, researchers

Climate warming has led to an increase in the number of icebergs

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