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...While the ground is shifting, many questions remain about greenhouse policies. How ambitious will emission reduction targets be? Is carbon trading a way to shift funds from taxpayers and consumers to renewable-energy entrepreneurs and big business? Will these potentially valuable carbon permits be given away or sold at auction? What will be the balance between gdp growth and the environment? Will politicians continue to undermine an open market? In N.S.W., for example, the state government has granted BlueScope an exemption from its carbon trading scheme or any future carbon tax to help establish a new steel plant at Port...
...Harvard Cancer Society (HCS) hosted its second annual Valentine’s Day Date Auction last Saturday in the Quincy JCR, raising over $1,100 for cancer research. But can money really buy you love? HCS president Natasia A. de Silva ’08 reluctantly says no. “The event is for charity, not for love.” Yet she insists, “I can tell you, there were actual romantic dates last year,” giving hope to the love-sick hopefuls looking for their own cure this coming Valentine?...
...arts are not created equal.These days, if you want to be a successful artist, chances are you’ll want to be a visual artist and not a poet. If you happen to make it big as a painter, you might just auction off something for half a million at Sotheby’s or Christie’s. Making it big as a poet means you might sell about 50,000 copies. “And let’s assume the writer makes a dollar a book,” adds Emily K. Vasiliauskas...
...even mention how other genres have glorified Chicago at Indiana's expense - like Alfred Hitchcock's thriller North By Northwest, in which Cary Grant gets chased between Chicago and Indianapolis. In Chicago, Cary does suave, urbane things like thwart the bad guys at a high-rent art auction; in Indiana he gets attacked by a crop duster in a scene that makes the rural fields I used to run in look like a benighted dust bowl. Frank Sinatra sang about Chicago's Union Stockyards - but never about the Indianapolis stockyards I worked at in the summers with my grandfather...
...didn't. So at Sundance this year, Bacon put the game to use by launching a website, Sixdegrees.org which accepts donations for stars' favorite charities. "Instead of seeing what a celebrity's favorite handbag is, you can see what they really care about," he says. Sixdegrees will also auction off stars' Sundance freebies on eBay. Never have Parker Posey's Ugg boots been put to such good...