Word: caps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...plate friends bring eco-consciousness to the deprived world of upscale Los Angelenos. They visit organic restaurants and sip biodynamic cabernet sauvignons. They build a home compost bin for a chef from Spago and work on a "green" mansion large enough to dry-dock an aircraft carrier. And they cap off each episode by sitting down to cocktails or dinner and telling one another how awesome they are. ("Why are you such a mensch?" Grenier asks a pal.) In Alter Eco, environmentalism exists not to save the world but to ennoble people who are richer, thinner and cooler than...
...Link's basement. Obama and fellow senators made up the "core four." The game began at 7 p.m. and often lasted until 2 a.m. There were pizza and chips, a fridge full of beer, and enough cigars for a smoke-filled room. Obama usually showed up in a baseball cap and sweats. He cadged cigarettes and drank a beer, kept up with the boys'-night-out banter and roared at the off-color stories. When he lost a hand, Obama joked that he couldn't afford gasoline to drive home...
...sitting at a green metal table with two of my fellow interns, Rachel and Danny. All of a sudden, we hear the aching melody of Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply." We turn slightly and see a man—probably in his late 60s, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses—round the coffee stand. He is dressed in a gray t-shirt beneath a navy-blue basketball jersey, both of which are tucked into his Adidas sweatpants. In one hand, he carries the Savage Garden-blasting boombox, and in the other, he totes a pink bag emblazoned...
...burden. The developed world is far from united - though E.U. nations have already committed to at least a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 (compared to 1990 levels), the U.S. and oil-rich Canada remain reluctant to tie themselves down. (President George W. Bush recently pledged to cap the growth in U.S. emissions by 2025 - a goal that's not even in the same galaxy as that of his European counterparts.) Host nation Japan, the most energy-efficient big country in the world, is struggling to meet its Kyoto caps and is backing away from hard targets. Countries...
...less likely it seems that our political systems are capable of crafting a commensurate response. Maybe we lack the ability to plan so far in ahead. In the U.S., the talk today is of gas prices, not global warming, and the first serious attempt at a federal carbon cap recently went fell in an embarrassing defeat in the Senate. Present fears overwhelm us, something Blair should know well - his Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005 was meant to focus on development and climate change, but it was instead dominated by the London bombings, which had occurred a few days earlier...