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Unlike CO2, which can hang around in the atmosphere for centuries - CO2 that was emitted by the first coal-powered train is probably still in the air, warming the planet - black carbon has a relatively brief life span. It remains just a few weeks in the air before it falls to earth. That's key, because if the world could reduce black carbon emissions soon, it could help blunt warming almost instantly. "You can wait a week or a month and the totals in the atmosphere can be significantly different," says Eric Wilcox, an atmospheric scientist with NASA. Meanwhile...
...Better Tomorrow,” Woo descended into predictable, high-octane Americanized dramas that seemed to hamper his directorial creativity. “Red Cliff” marks a return to both his native land—the film was shot over one year in and around Beijing—as well as his native tongue—the film is entirely in Mandarin with English subtitles flying across the screen...
...initial test crawl, which took place on her school track, she completed the mile in 45 minutes. Armed with newly purchased biker gloves and kneepads, D’Asaro spent a week crawling around her neighborhood. On her second attempt around the track, D’Asaro found that she had improved her time by 10 minutes. She realized then, she said, that her project was actually “feasible...
...that’s all fine and good, but those countries are not America—where the government generally refrains from interfering with our sense of who we are. Young Republicans may see little worth in more red tape—even if it’s wrapped around reinvigorated national pride. Young Democrats—who have ironically paid less attention to public culture over the last decade than Republicans—may fear the purview of the state over something as precious to progressives as the arts...
...play is a set of 17 multilingual, multimedia vignettes centered around a theatrical construct named “Anne,” the production’s closest approximation of a main character...