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...don’t pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it,” she said. “Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don’t begin with...
...realized the many similarities. He proposed on the Weeks Footbridge a little more than three years after they met. After their Cambridge wedding, the pair will live together in Pennsylvania. (The groom is from Ohio and the bride from Virginia.) Hetrick already works for Merck Pharmaceuticals and Vittori will begin a master’s degree program at Lehigh University. Hetrick said he “probably logged 20,000 miles” on his car this year shuttling between Pennsylvania and Cambridge, but Vittori said the distance wasn’t a problem because they communicate so well...
...world energy market is “likely to remain deceptively stable through the mid-1980s.” the IEA report says. And therein lies the danger, for people and governments will begin once more to neglect the energy issue and ignore pleas for continued conservation. True, gains have been made that will not easily be reversed. No one, for example, is about to rip insulation from walls or trade in a fuel efficient compact for an oversized gas guzzler. But efforts to find alternative energy sources will diminish and conservation policies in general will take on less urgency...
...official at the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated last summer that executions will be stepped up in the next two years, and may approach the frequency of the Depression era, when there were three executions a week. Any attempt to stop the spate of killings must begin quickly. Public debate has nearly ended—the Times buried Brooks’ execution on page 28. Unless those with an interest in justice step forward soon, we will see the issue turned over to people like the pro-execution demonstrators outside the prison in Huntsville. They posed for the cameras with...
Global warming is a cause that has gradually broadened its support among the American public. Now we'll begin to see whether that support still runs shallow. On Monday the Senate will begin debating America's Climate Security Act, a bill that would finally attempt to make carbon-emission reduction a federal objective. Co-sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner, the measure calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 18% below 2005 levels by 2020, and nearly 70% by 2050, using a cap-and-trade system that steadily reduces the amount of carbon that industry is allowed to emit...