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Mindful of Kyoto, the government has lately shifted the focus to cutting greenhouse gases. That gave birth to the Cool Biz policy in 2005, under which offices save energy by keeping summer temperatures at a stifling 82.4°F (28°C). To beat the heat, salarymen are told to doff their black suits in favor of light colors and open collars. The result made the Prime Minister occasionally look as if he were addressing parliament from a beach in Waikiki, but at least Cool Biz had more style than a similar Japanese idea from the 1970s: the short-sleeved business...
...populist demagoguery. Last summer's bloody melee in Lebanon, fought against a Hizballah trained and equipped by Tehran, may have been the first Israeli-Iranian war. The Taliban, supposedly crushed in 2001, is doing very nicely in Afghanistan. The war against terror resembles a game of whack-a-mole: beat down one head, and see three more creatures pop out of the other holes...
...Constitution. James Monroe and John Quincy Adams had signal diplomatic triumphs: Monroe bought the Louisiana Territory from Napoléon Bonaparte, doubling the country's size, and Adams, as Monroe's Secretary of State, conceived the Monroe Doctrine, which waved Europe off the western hemisphere. Andrew Jackson, the frontier warrior, beat the Creek Indians in the old Southwest and the British in New Orleans...
Your parents are begging you to come home, but the thought of another week watching “Scrubs” reruns is a little too depressing. Fortunately, it’s not too late to abandon ship. Beat the intersession blues with a trip to Montreal and enjoy the city’s foreign cool, quirky accents, and friendly drinking age. First, indulge your appetite at Les Chenets with classic Québécois poutine—fries, gravy, and juicy cheese curds. Mmm, heart disease. Then head to St-Viateur for soft Montreal bagels and slab...
...this, Harvard changed up its penalty kill to play tighter around the net, preventing Dartmouth from crashing in at the net and scoring.In both cases, the Olympic trio of Gillian Apps, Sarah Parsons, and Katie Weatherston methodically moved the puck around and found the holes in the Crimson defense.Apps beat sophomore goalie Brittany Martin with a hard slapshot that deflected off of Weatherston in the first period.In the second frame, Apps banged home a puck after Martin got caught on the wrong side of the net on a nice across the crease pass from Weatherston.The Crimson also changed...