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...biggest draw, without a doubt, is its human factor, and WoW's fans have quickly shaped Azeroth into a second Earth. Players hunt for gold, and epic items, then put them up for sale on eBay, thus turning a hobby into a livelihood. They have cyber-sex, date, and get married. They hang out with old friends who may live hundreds of miles away...
...mention of mass games or nuclear weapons. "Anyone bold enough to try to discuss the North in nonjudgmental terms inevitably has felt the need to first establish a protective bubble of morally clean credentials [by uttering] something like, 'I think that North Korea is the worst regime on earth,'" Church says. "Characters in a mystery don't have to do any such thing...
...output]", says Francis Sullivan, the bank's environment adviser. HSBC looks, he says, for more efficient uses of its money, such as its investment in a wind farm in New Zealand. Tree planting, Sullivan says, "is a distraction." Many green groups agree. In a recent report, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF advised consumers to shun reforestation in favor of projects that "support the transition to non-fossil-fuel-based energy...
...fine, say many environmental advocates, but they also say customers should be focusing more on cutting emissions in the first place. "Offsets can be seen as an easy way out for governments, businesses and individuals to continue polluting without making changes to their behavior," say Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and WWF in their recent report on offsetting. So if offsetting does have a role to play in preventing mankind from cooking the planet, at best it's a supporting one. Up in the hills of Llanybydder, Hartwell says he makes it clear to his customers that offsetting is only...
...very funny. A wonderful of humor. Unlimited energy. Interested in everything. Very down to earth. Extremely unpretentious. Very straight forward,” Burger says...