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...Air-traffic controllers is one option. There's a great demand for those right now. You may remember Ronald Reagan broke up the air-traffic controllers' union, and they hired a whole bunch of people at that time. Well, that cohort of workers is getting ready to retire. Actuaries is another I might mention. Those are the people who work for insurance companies and figure out how much they should charge you. They figure out the odds that people are going to die, get in an accident, need health care. They have to be good with numbers...
...valid reason to refuse to regulate the CO2 emissions that come from new coal-powered plants. The decision pointed to a May 2007 ruling by the Supreme Court that recognized CO2, the main cause of climate change, is indeed a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and therefore needs to be regulated by the EPA. In the months since that landmark decision, the EPA - with the support of the Bush Administration - has doggedly refuse to regulate CO2, much to the dismay of environmentalists. The board's decision will force the EPA to consider CO2 when issuing permits...
...their nationwide campaign to stop new coal. The 110-megawatt plant, which received its EPA permit in July 2007, would have emitted 3.37 million tons of CO2 a year - the equivalent to putting another 660,000 cars on the road. In detail, Thursday's decision means that any new air pollution permits for coal plants will require that Best Available Control Technology (BACT) be used to reduce CO2 emissions, the same criteria currently used for other pollutants, like sulfur dioxide or soot. BACT requires companies involved in power plants to use the best available technology to control pollutants...
...millions of foodies who can't get a reservation for one of Ferran Adrià's 30-course tasting menus in Roses, Spain, there is A Day at elBulli (Phaidon; $50). The most useful thing about a book like Adrià's (wildest recipe: preserved tuna-oil air) might be a glimpse into the future. Techniques that start in restaurants often make their way into the home. Says Tim Ryan, president of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y.: "In the '50s and '60s, microwaves were very cutting edge...
...former adviser to Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, about the question of presidential ambition. Porter teaches the popular class, Government 1540: “The American Presidency.†It meets twice a week in Harvard Hall, and the students who take it project an air of fresh-scrubbed optimism nowhere to be found in classes on, say, social theory. The guys all seem to have crew-cuts, the girls shoulder-length hair and headbands. Chris Ballesteros perches on one of windowsills and takes notes on his laptop. In order to make it to the White...