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...skiing, my friends still tell me, is worth the effort. It's not just a sport, they say, it's an art form. And they're right; skiing is the art of falling brutally at high speeds, eating several cubic meters of snow, screaming for dear life and being able to say at the bottom, "That was great. Another...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Vermont is for Masochists | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

Imposing a CO2 fee would not be as difficult as it sounds. It is easy to quantify how much CO2 comes from burning a gallon of gasoline, a ton of coal or a cubic yard of natural gas. Most countries already have gasoline taxes; similar fees, set according to the amount of CO2 produced, could be put on all fossil-fuel sources. At the same time, companies could be given credits against their CO2 taxes if they planted trees to take some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Global Warming Feeling the Heat | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

Under the proposal, institutions would be charged $0.94 per cubic foot of water, while single families would be taxed at $0.81. Commercial users would pay $0.85 per cubic foot and industrial users...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Council Questions Water Plan | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...biggest users are Harvard and MIT, yet the rate increase does not reflect them," Walsh said, adding that the proposal would merely perpetuate the present system. Instead, he said the rates per cubic foot should be highest for the institutions using the most water...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Council Questions Water Plan | 11/29/1988 | See Source »

...married? I have a cubic zirconia," said the drunk college student as he stumbled towards...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: We Came, We Saw, We Drank | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

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