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...Kyoto, whatever its drawbacks, did contain one breakthrough: an architecture that would have allowed countries to reduce emissions through a credit-trading system. The concept was pioneered by the President's father in his Clean Air Act, which cut acid rain in half by allowing U.S. utilities to trade sulfur dioxide credits. Today the system would permit the industrialized countries to trade carbon-emission credits (basically licenses to emit specific amounts of greenhouse gases) among one another and participating developing countries. Because climate change is a global problem, its solution is ideally suited to an international-trading regime. Such trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for the Son of Kyoto | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...glass. If they're going to put us in the cage with something so dangerous, they shouldn't have had kids standing around the glass being able to be distracting or whatever could've happened. They should've had, god knows, a net or some kind of ability to contain the animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transcript: Sharon Stone vs. the Komodo Dragon | 6/23/2001 | See Source »

...ironic that many herbally enhanced foods contain such small amounts of their active ingredients that they probably don't have any biological effect at all. What they do have plenty of, however, is excess calories, which hardly seems healthy or worth the added cost. So while the FDA and the food manufacturers duke it out over herbal additives, do yourself a favor and stock up on the true, original health foods: tomatoes, broccoli, asparagus, apples, pears and other fruits and vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Herbal Warning | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...like nudity. I like musicals. So what, I figured, could be better than a combination of the two, assuming Nathan Lane wasn't involved? You can imagine my dismay in discovering that not only does the movie Moulin Rouge contain absolutely no nudity but the characters sing unmusical rock songs like Up Where You Belong and Smells Like Teen Spirit. I hadn't felt this disappointed since learning that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a children's movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Naked and the Dead | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...crises. Part of the tension may be a product of the European Union beginning to realize its own collective political and diplomatic clout on the global stage, which will see it assuming an expanding role in relation to such conflicts as the Middle East. And that development will inevitably contain both advantages and challenges for Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Bush in Europe: The Issues | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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