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...States that ban gay marriage boasted a 11% spike in avid porn-viewers above those that don't outlaw such unions...
Denmark's own challenges are small compared to the gargantuan task of trying to get more than 190 nations to agree on new carbon-cutting targets. (Rasmussen, an avid cyclist, compares the Copenhagen summit to the Tour de France's punishing Alpe d'Huez climbing stage - which he tried for himself last summer.) But the country does have the power of its example, showing that you can stay rich and grow green at the same time. "Denmark has proven that acting on climate can be a positive experience, not just painful," says NRDC's Schmidt. The real pain could come...
...Avid followers of the case were incredulous that the body lay less than 100 yards from the park's trail. But the inability to find Levy's body for more than a year - during which time hopes of unearthing physical evidence from the scene slowly seeped away - was only one in a battery of mistakes committed during a bungled investigation. Investigators failed to realize security cameras installed at Levy's apartment building might have offered valuable clues until after the tapes had been erased. While examining Levy's laptop for clues, an unseasoned sergeant mangled her Internet search history, forcing...
...hope to rival them in opulence and global status. The campaign included an official bureau of tourism, a national park system, improved transportation, and department stores large enough to include swimming pools and zoos.The entire exhibition consists of paintings culled from the collection of Hosokawa Rikizo, a businessman and avid art collector who founded a luxury hotel at the start of the Showa period. Since the works were commisioned, produced, and exhibited for Japanese audiences, many visitors will appreciate the use of quotations from Frank H. Lee, an Englishman living in Tokyo at the time, in order to address apparent...
Online citizens may be more plentiful in East Asia, but even there paper rules. In Japan, the average household still subscribes to more than one newspaper. In fact, the Japanese are the world's most avid newspaper readers, despite a dip in circulation over the past couple of years. "One would be hard-pressed to find another country in the world where newspaper companies are publishing several million issues a day," says Yoichi Funabashi, editor in chief of the Asahi Shimbun, the world's second largest daily (after its rival the Yomiuri Shimbun) with more than 8 million subscribers. Nonetheless...