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...luxury one Hand-crafted in frost-resistant clay by British company Green & Blue, Birdball derives its shape from the spherical forms that blue tits and coal tits prefer to construct when left to make nests on their own. At about $60, this chic number doesn't come cheap, but some experts reckon there's no better answer to the nesting urge. www.birdball.co.uk...
...Kyoto Protocol-style policy will never work, largely because the developing countries like India and China will never sign on to a plan that might hamper their exploding economies. Instead our only hope is to advance low-carbon technologies that are good enough to save the climate and cheap enough for India and China to buy. "If you care about the environment, you have to have a strong interest in science and technology," says Gingrich. "It's not a question of political will. It's a question of whether we can deliver a series of solutions with broad enough support...
...broken health system. Most of the country lives there. Take Abhishek Khushwa. He would be a normal kid but for the fact that nine years after his birth with a bladder defect, his family is still struggling to get him what should be a simple and relatively cheap operation. Like many sick Indians, Abhishek is both symptom and cause. His lack of proper treatment is reason enough for national shame but his ill health hurts the country in turn, not only forcing the frail-looking boy to miss school for a week or two every few months while he searches...
...many Western concerns are absurd. As a huge buyer of commodities, China has powered some of Africa's strongest growth since independence - hardly a negative trend. Cheap Chinese consumer goods have also stretched African shoppers' small budgets. Meanwhile, for a nation like France to complain about China's human-rights record on Africa seems beyond a pot-kettle comparison - France has long sponsored African "democrats" like former Central African Republic leader Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was ultimately convicted of at least 20 murders. Likewise, the U.S. has close ties to Ethiopia's abusive regime, and to oil-rich...
...referring to the mass popularity of the Nazi aesthetic. This modern artistic phenomenon is even worse: There isn’t even any aesthetic pleasure any more. All that these increasingly macabre displays provoke is the temporary fury of the average gent and the viewer’s cheap satisfaction that at least there is someone in the world more senseless, base, and ugly than...