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American industries are making tremendous progress in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions without sinking our economy. Led by government-industry cooperation and voluntary programs, we are improving efficiency and creating the technologies of tomorrow right now. Industry is putting the environment first yet keeping the economy strong. GLENN KELLY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Global Climate Coalition Washington...
...profits and onto pollution and fossil-fuel consumption. Tax shifts greatly reduce the economic costs of emissions reductions because they use market mechanisms rather than regulation to drive changes in behavior, and they also provide a way to reduce taxes on income and profits. M. JEFF HAMOND, DEPUTY DIRECTOR Incentives Program Redefining Progress Washington...
...slow development of artificial intelligence in the real world, the movie might have made it to the screen before Eyes. "Stanley was eager to get back into the game" after a 12-year hiatus but couldn't decide which film to do first, says Semel. The director even toyed with the idea of having Steven Spielberg direct AI, and the two men discussed the story, but Kubrick decided he wanted to do it after Eyes. Warner owns the rights to the script--just as MGM owns the rights to another Kubrick script, Napoleon--but there are no plans to make...
...strict environmentalists, ecotourism may be "a widely abused term which doesn't mean much anymore," in the words of Richard Leakey, director of Kenya's Wildlife Service. Certainly, having Masai Mara guides using two-way radios to speed the search for lions hardly seems in the spirit of noninvasive touring. But for all that, most critics concede that ecotourism is less invasive than forestry, mining and other forms of development. As Luis Roman, a Peruvian anthropologist working with the Matsiguenkas, observes, "To be successful with a venture like this, you need planning to make sure you don't overload...
...them to the palace in the early morning and back to a four-star hotel in Delhi in time for lunch. The 18-day, hassle-free millennium package costs $75,000. Who's buying? "The percentage of travelers who are millionaires is staggering," says David M. Weber, managing director of two-year-old R. Crusoe & Son. His company has sold all 80 places on one millennium junket--around the world in 24 days through developing nations on private jet, at $44,950 (double occupancy)--and started on a second...