Word: economice
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That fact explains the effort under way to drive consumers toward a better bulb: compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), which last 10 times as longer as their incandescent counterparts while consuming less than one-third the electricity. The European Union began phasing out incandescents on Sept. 1, banning stores from buying...
Symbolic, useless two-year stints on the Security Council will not bring representation for much of the world. Expansion of permanent membership, however, would be a timely and productive measure to consider. Brazil, one of the new visiting members, would be an interesting choice to consider, as it exerts great...
The Gist: The College Board has released its annual report on the cost of higher education, and the news is distressingly predictable: despite the current economic downturn, college is getting more expensive. Tuition and fees for the 2009-10 school year at a private, four-year college or university now...
The Lowdown: There's a certain cruelty to a rise in education costs amid an economic slump: it makes the single most effective tool to help the underemployed and jobless out of their rut become all the more unreachable. Though the government and private donors have stepped in to ease...
A successful 2008 Olympics showed China as a world leader in sport, and the relative strength of the country's economy amid the global financial downturn has given it further economic clout. China's domestic publishing industry has expanded rapidly since economic reforms began in the late 70s, with 270...