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...more energy efficient than their old homes. The Discovery Channel has spent months documenting the town's reconstruction for a miniseries on the Greensburg experience that will be produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. In early January, the city council approved a plan that would make all public buildings in Greensburg conform to the Platinum rating of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) standards - something no town in the America has ever tried. Ron Shank's car dealership, which had been close to closing, will be rebuilt as a model green facility for GM, and Google...
...election, Democrats chanted to would-be Green Party supporters the refrain that a vote for Ralph Nader was a vote for Bush. Losing the White House ingrained a powerful message in the consciousness of a certain group of environmental-leaning liberals: Your party hurts America, so either conform, or get out of politics. This likely contributed to the Green Party’s decline in popularity since 2000. What is troubling is that dwindling support for third parties feeds on itself. The choice not to waste a vote on a third party for fear that it will never win results...
...Pressure to Conform Many Muslims make daily choices to blend into mainstream office culture. Consider the Dutch marketing consultant who drinks wine at client lunches. Or the British computer-graphics expert who says he's popping out for a sandwich rather than admit he's going to the mosque. Or Arslan, who had to jettison her cultural values to argue for a raise: "Modesty is an Islamic virtue, but if you're modest, you don't get anywhere in Europe." Just as working mothers do, Europe's Muslim professionals raise issues about white-collar workplace culture and its demands. Those...
...pharmaceutical industry, the laser chip may be used to ensure that all pills conform to standards of chemical composition, rendering the current method obsolete, Belkin said...
...misery,” Dines said. Dines lambasted the very icons of American “slut culture,” from Britney (“the trash can of our culture”) to Pamela Anderson (“no woman has done more to conform to patriarchy than Pamela”). Even Sports Illustrated, generally not considered the raunchiest of magazines, earned her wrath. “They ignore women’s sports for 11 months out of the year, and then for one month we become the sport,” she said...