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...first African-American head of the EPA. Environmentalism is often thought of as a concern for a narrow, well-off elite. How do you want to change that perception and broaden the green tent...
...link, according to Stack's study. He explains that the studies that were able to find associations were those that tended to involve celebrity death or heavy media coverage - factors that, unsurprisingly, tend to co-occur. "The stories that are most likely to have an impact are ones that concern entertainment and political celebrities. Coverage of these suicides is 5.2 times more likely to produce a copycat effect than coverage of ordinary people's suicides," Stack says. In the month after Marilyn Monroe's death, for example, the suicide rate in the U.S. rose...
...Deibel said that the restaurant’s eco-consciousness stems mostly out of a genuine concern for the environment, but that the establishment’s green status also motivates the staff and the boosts business. “People like to eat in places that are responsible,” she said...
...concern is not about me," she said. "My concern is whether there have been widespread abuses [that] may impact the members of Congress, but, more importantly, may impact a broad cross section of the American public who don't have the bully pulpit that...
...today, it's the pirates who are on the run. While piracy in Africa has become a major international security concern, the problem in the strait has been almost completely eradicated. Only two attacks were attempted there in 2008, even as the global total reached a record high. In the first quarter of 2009, the bureau reported that the number of pirate attacks around the world nearly doubled, to 102 incidents, compared with the same period last year; only one of them occurred in the Strait of Malacca. (Read a brief history of pirates...