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Caldeira modeled the effects on climate that Crutzen's notion of spreading sulfur particles into the air would have and found that geoengineering might be able to compensate for a doubling of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Even more impressive was the price tag: somewhere between a few hundred million dollars and a couple of billion dollars a year, compared with the unknowable cost of decarbonizing the entire world. But the drawbacks are serious. Worsening air pollution is a risk. We'd have to keep geoengineering indefinitely to balance out continued greenhouse-gas emissions, and the motivation...
...parallels, it seemed, ended there: Harry Potter became a multi-billion-dollar movie franchise, while Precious Ramotswe is only now finding her way to the more modest medium of television. Yet, whether in books or on screen, she's not to be underestimated. In the U.K., the bbc will air a two-hour film version of the novel this month, along with a 13-part follow-on series, both of which will also be shown on HBO in the U.S. The high-wattage team behind the production is betting that Precious can help to recast the world's view...
...believe that art is a window into the future,” artistic director Mikko Ninssinen declares. If what Nissinen says is true, then the Boston Ballet’s “Next Generation” is flinging open the glass and letting in the fresh air...
...Fallon had held his command, which included Iraq and Afghanistan, for the past year. A Navy pilot, he liked to "push the envelope" both in the air and in his comments on U.S. policy in the region. In the April Esquire, Thomas Barnett, a former professor at the Naval War College, wrote that Fallon was "brazenly challenging" the Bush Administration's push to go to war with Iran, fighting "against what he saw as an ill-advised action." The lengthy article claimed that while President Bush wants war with Iran, "the admiral has urged restraint and diplomacy," adding, "Who will...
...Fallon isn't the first four-star officer to lose his job for verbal missteps. General Michael Duggan was fired as Air Force chief of staff by then-defense secretary Dick Cheney in 1990 for telling reporters traveling with him about Air Force attack options to help drive Iraq out of Kuwait following Saddam Hussein's invasion of that country earlier that year. In 1995, Admiral Richard Macke, then the head of Pacific Command, was ousted after telling reporters over breakfast that sailors and Marines who beat and raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute...