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...sweatpants, a child with a rattail and a guy wearing a Captain America costume. But the website's founders, three guys in their early 20s who preferred to provide only their first names, aren't interested in stereotypical rednecks or run-of-the-mill mullet sightings. "Mullets are too common," says Andrew, who is 23 and lives in Indiana. "We want to document the kind of stuff that when you see it, you immediately have to call someone and be like, 'Dude, I'm at Walmart and I just saw a goat.' " (See pictures of the world beard and moustache...
Deeper divisions exist between the developed and developing world. Under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the highly acronymized organization that oversees climate diplomacy - rich and poor nations have what is called "common but differentiated responsibilities" on cutting carbon. Decoded, that means rich nations have to take the lead on reducing emissions - as seems fair, since most of the carbon in the atmosphere has been put there over the past 200 years by the developed world - but poor nations need to take some action as well. Fine, but the emergence of China, already the world's biggest carbon...
...shift produced student concerns that they may no longer have a common space, evinced in a resolution passed by the Student Government near the end of the spring term and a critical student editorial in The Citizen, the school newspaper...
...themselves, but also the interactions bees have with each other and how they cooperate to do things that are much greater than some of the parts.” “This was a great opportunity to bring together traditionally separate research areas under the focus of a common goal,” he added.—Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu...
...related to failed distribution programs for the male condom in the past. Other experts suspect that it's a result of foreign NGOs and governments pushing Uganda away from effective domestic programs that were aimed at keeping people from having more than one sexual partner, a relatively common practice in the country...