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...proposed $825 billion stimulus package currently making its way through Congress will be the most expansive spending plan the government has ever proposed. It's expected to cut taxes, fund everything from highways to college education, extend COBRA health insurance for the unemployed, and...give $150 million to the Smithsonian Institution...
...Pfizer (PFE) has already fired thousands of people. Most recently it cut 800 researchers and 2,400 sales personnel. The drug firm probably would have been more brutal if it could have been. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...with carbon caps, even if it means offering them a watered-down proposal. But even that may be onerous: As difficult as it was convincing the public that climate change was a clear and present danger - and a majority of conservatives are still doubtful - the political fight to really cut carbon emissions will be knottier. Although Obama has surrounded himself with scientists who believe that global warming is our biggest threat - including Nobel Prize-winner Steven Chu as Energy Secretary, and Harvard's John Holdren as White House science adviser - members of the President-elect's economic team reportedly remain...
...levels in the atmosphere respond on a sluggish 100-year timescale to reductions in emissions, soot particles, whose effects are equivalent to roughly half the warming damage that carbon dioxide does, have a shelf life of only a few weeks. Environmentalists have joined scientists' call to urge governments to cut pollution by introducing more efficient heating stoves in developing countries and turning to solar power and other clean sources of energy. "We need sustainable growth in every city in this world," says Edwin Lau Che Feng, director of the environmental group Friends of the Earth in Hong Kong. "Richer countries...
...Another underutilized energy-efficiency tip: for new construction, orienting buildings correctly and optimizing window locations can cut energy use by a quarter or more. These are savings from Day One - and at no extra cost. Dave Deppen, San Rafael, Calif...