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...President Barack Obama took office, he directed the new EPA to kick-start the regulation process - nearly 11 months and 380,000 public comments later, the agency is now poised to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. "This cements 2009's place in history as the year the U.S. government began seriously addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution," said Jackson...
Zinc could change that. Earlier this year, pilot zinc-treatment programs began in parts of Ethiopia and Tanzania, and several African governments are now looking at zinc programs. The treatment is already stirring interest among rich-country donors and drug companies: about 20 firms in countries from France to India have begun manufacturing zinc tablets during the past few years. "The private sector was never really interested in ORT," Fontaine says. "But zinc has totally taken off. It looks like real medicine and is not given out for free...
...pair moved to New York City and began to dream about larger projects. Over the years they wrapped the Pont-Neuf in Paris and Berlin's Reichstag in bright woven fabric, ran a 24.5-mile (39.4 km) curtain fence across the Northern California landscape and created the completely enchanting project called The Gates--7,503 saffron-colored fabric panels that hung from what looked like portable goalposts positioned every few yards along the paths of New York City's Central Park...
...Began dating Raffaele Sollecito, 25, whom she met at a classical-music concert in mid-October 2007 in Italy; Sollecito, an Italian engineering student, is also charged in Kercher's murder...
...firmly believes that because she's innocent, the evidence will show that and she'll be released. So, it's good that it's getting started. She's also nervous. I mean, they say horrible things about her." - Edda Mellas, Knox's mother, on the day the trial began (Good Morning America...