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...Target into my basket, and I'm going... 'nah, maybe not.' Someone picks something up from their basket, takes it to another section, and then discards it. So the stores are just messier. And a basic rule of retailing is that you have to have a clean store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Consumers Shop Differently Today | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...written, using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions directly would be unreasonably difficult, because of carbon dioxide's sheer ubiquity. In 2000, the U.S. emitted less than 18 million tons of the pollutant sulfur dioxide, chiefly from cars, power plants and factories. In the same year, national CO2 emissions reached nearly 6 billion tons, from virtually every aspect of modern life. Regulating emissions would be like trying to gather up the ocean. In addition, the Clean Air Act technically requires "major" sources of pollutants - meaning those that emit more than 250 tons a year - to acquire costly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The EPA's Move to Regulate Carbon: A Stopgap Solution | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...doorway spilled from up top and scattered the ground like your first toss of corn feed. My silk creaked as I stooped to the wreckage. The bird’s beak sat up as tall as you please in the center of its own mess.I couldn’t clean it. I’d never touched it after putting it up there so I certainly wouldn’t now. When she’d bought it for me, Mama had only said, “Now that’s something” as she watched the canary...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...attention because it’s customary.”Not only did Ali and Coogan win over the crowd, they also gained the support of the management of Bertucci’s, the restaurant in front of which they performed. The manager was so pleased with the clean cut duo and their classical repertoire that he often gave them free dinners and offered them the opportunity to come play every evening in the prime Brattle Square location. But performers with less high-brow acts have received less amicable treatment and certainly no free meals. David Johnston, a Brattle Square...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Melanie E. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Square Center of Performing Smarts | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...During the course of the 45-minute news conference, Obama and Harper jointly announced a clean-energy dialogue between Canada and the U.S., in part intended to develop alternative energy sources and reduce carbon emissions from Canada's tar sands. Northern Alberta's tar sands are the single biggest supplier of foreign oil to the U.S., ahead of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, but the extraction process is energy-intensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama and the Canadians: Upbeat in Ottawa | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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