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...biggest benefit to recycling might be psychological. Start recycling regularly - and successfully - and you'll begin thinking a bit more about your impact on the Earth. "There are so many environmental initiatives out there that are important," says Gonen. "Solar, wind, biofuels. But these are all huge, capital-intensive projects. Most of us can't do that, but everyone can recycle." I just hope RecycleBank comes to Brooklyn soon - my newspapers are piling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Recycling Really Pay | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...films with gruesome outtakes of the injuries he suffered doing his stunts.) For all the safety precautions taken, the two stars still have to give every fiber of their disciplined, battered bodies to get through the kung-fu scenes. It's what made them action stars to begin with: the willingness to display their physical gifts while undergoing something like physical torture. In a phrase, macho masochism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong Kung-fu Stars Can't Be Stopped | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...evolution, asking, for example, how something as complex as a living cell could have possibly arisen whole from the earth's primordial soup. The answer is it couldn't--and it didn't. Organic chemicals needed eons of stirring and slow cooking before they could produce compounds that could begin to lead to a living thing. More dishonestly, Stein employs the common dodge of enumerating all the admittedly unanswered questions in evolutionary theory and using this to refute the whole idea. But all scientific knowledge is built this way. A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stein Dukes it Out with Darwin | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

Immediately after banging her gavel to begin yesterday’s Faculty meeting, University President Drew G. Faust opened with a few words, followed by a moment of silence in honor of former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles who passed away last week.“It would be impossible at this moment, in this room not to be thinking about Jeremy,” she said. “We will have times and occasions to speak about Jeremy in the days and weeks to come, but today I want to ask you for silence, for silence...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, Maxwell L. Child, and Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Hiring Will Slow, Smith Says | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...came to Dublin in 1999. At that time, there was peaceful co-existence between Shi'ites and Sunnis. He says one could even crack Shi'ite-Sunni jokes in mixed company. That is no longer true. "They cannot handle it anymore," he says of Sunnis. He saw relations begin to deteriorate in Dublin as Shi'ites gained power in Baghdad, and they grew worse as the sectarian conflict in Iraq became more violent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ireland's Sunni-Shi'ite Divide | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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