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...country's GDP rose 56% while CO2 emissions dropped 35% - and thanks to smart policies and investment, more than a quarter of Denmark's electricity now comes from renewable sources. Danish companies also punch well above their weight in the growing wind turbine industry. To drum up global support for the summit, Hedegaard can easily make the case that the economy doesn't have to come before the environment - even during a global recession. "This isn't just about the climate crisis," she says. "This is about how we will grow for the future...
...Richie Valens ("La Bamba") as a way to dig himself out of bankruptcy. And yet his influence on early rock 'n' roll is almost unmatched. Holly was barely out of high school when he opened for Elvis Presley in 1955. He popularized the two guitar, one bass, one drum lineup that so many acts (the Beatles, the Kinks, Talking Heads, Weezer) would later adopt. When a self-conscious Roy Orbison saw Holly's black rimmed glasses and slim jim ties, he decided not to let his homely, face-for-radio looks hinder his singing career. (For a while, John Lennon...
...that. Or you can pay for four nights, and stay for seven. You get champagne served in Waterford flutes, chocolate covered tropical fruit, and a 15-minute professional photo shoot session. Add a candlelit dinner on the beach served by a white-gloved butler and steel-drum seranade starting at $160 for two. 888-SANDALS...
...party held on Miami's South Beach that ranked among the best of the pre-Super Bowl bashes: "One section of the beach was furnished with couches and upholstered chairs arranged in front of a stage with a steel drum band and Latin dancers gyrating on platforms. Just to one side, chefs churned up paella with shovels...In another cabana, they were handing out Super Bowl commemorative Crocs-blue with orange or orange with blue, all gratis. The party felt busy, but there was never a line, whether it was for the roast pig at the savory station, the decadent...
...push her candidacy, the Hutchison camp has released a poll by Voter Consumer Research showing her defeating Governor Perry 55% to 31%. Perry's pollster, Michael Baselice, scoffs at the numbers, telling the Houston Chronicle, "He beats her like a drum." But the prospect of two rival Republicans facing off is making for a Texas-size game of falling dominoes involving a slew of top politicians from both parties...