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...Monday, the head of the national airline regulator announced he will begin grounding flights within a few days if a new deal isn't reached. The sense of impending doom, said the pilots' main negotiator, was part of a plot. "Someone wants to create a company that produces the forms of serious psychological pressures on pilots that can cause airplane crashes," he said...
...that the best way to reduce the amount of trash he wasn't throwing away was to simply cut back on the amount of stuff he consumed in the first place. Given that his nickname is Sustainable Dave, that wasn't too hard. "I'm a non-consumer to begin with," says Chameides. "After a month or two I became aware of just how little I was consuming." Through about eight months, Chameides reckons he's kept a little more than 30 lbs. of trash - most of which dates back to the first couple months of the year, before...
...landfills are in no danger of filling up any time soon, taking out the trash is increasingly costly, with major cities like New York now having to truck their garbage hundreds of miles to reach an open dumping space. That means energy and carbon emissions. Chameides decided to begin his year of no trash after he visited his community's landfill. "It's nearly 40 miles away, and they have 13,000 tons of trash coming in every day," he says. "It's going to close in seven years, and then they'll have to ship the trash...
Although a final evaluation is yet to be completed, scientists believe the fault caused the machine to lose the near absolute-zero temperature it must maintain to operate. For now, however, repair work can't begin because the machine is still too cold; it will take about a month to warm up the area to a temperature at which replacement parts can be inserted. It will take another month to cool it back down, and given that CERN has pledged not to run its giant machine - which requires as much power as the entire city of Geneva - during winter months...
...out” and don’t have to worry about having to come out all over again, you know you will be a small minority at the Reunion, in a sea of people who you don’t remember to have been very accepting to begin with, and the appeal of such an event is lost on LGBT alumni. I come back every five years anyway but, frankly, often wonder while in Cambridge why the hell I did this to myself...