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Beyond making up the bricks of life, carbon is virtually inescapable in industry as well. The plastics that can be found in everything from your chair to the space shuttle contain carbon - as does, of course, our energy supply. Our main fossil fuels - coal, petroleum and gasoline - are made up of carbon that has been compressed in the Earth for millions of years and we're now burning and rapidly restoring to the atmosphere. (The same process occurs when we burn wood in a fireplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Carbon Is Not a Bad Word | 7/27/2008 | See Source »

...tribal war over the Marai Mountain in Yemen's Al-Bayda province has claimed more than 150 lives over a decade. Which is why Sheik Abdul-Rahman Al-Marwani, chair of the Dar Al-Salaam Organization for Combating Revenge and Violence, is steering his SUV one-handed through Sanaa's traffic, while using his Nokia phone to negotiate a possible settlement to the conflict. By the time Marwani hangs up, he's brokered a shaky truce between the two main warring groups : a year-long cease-fire during which there'll be more talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'If You Kill All the Christians ...' | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

...solitary confinement. Hamdan blamed Swift for failing to improve his life at Guantánamo, often refusing to see him when he arrived and even firing him once. He went on and off hunger strikes, one of which ended with Hamdan being force-fed liquid nutrients in a restraining chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salim Hamdan: Enemy Number One | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...Alee Lockman ’10, a Crimson associate design chair, is a government concentrator in Adams House...

Author: By Alee Lockman | Title: Unconventional | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...Hamdan has blamed Swift for failing to improve his life on Guantánamo and has often refused to see him and even fired him once. Hamdan has also gone on and off hunger strikes, one of which ended with his being force-fed liquid nutrients in a restraining chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamdan: Guantánamo's Mystery Man | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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