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...Administration proposes, the world should embark on a program to use the power of the marketplace to reduce greenhouse emissions. Though the exact details are far from worked out, permits to produce certain levels of gas could be issued to companies. Such permits could be sold, giving firms an incentive to cut emissions and then be able to profit from selling pollution rights. Moreover, the permits could be traded across national borders. If a company in Germany, for example, built an energy-efficient factory in China, it could avoid having to squeeze extra efficiency out of a factory back home...
...Dins will sing at the Harvard Coop's grand opening in the beginning of December and at the Harvard Club in Chicago for the Annual Alumni Awards Banquet in March, before they embark on a world tour next summer
...from the toilet, balloon animals spawned from condoms, and tongue studs constitute the American family experience. More to the point, despite having passed through my own phases of growing pains, tattoos and flunking two college courses, I have, at 22, managed to graduate from Columbia University, publish a novel, embark on my own adult journey and find some time to feel grateful to both my parents for teaching me the tools to find happiness through it all. In other words, I feel remarkably well adjusted for having been the product of Chopra's idealized "warm bubble bath of self." GAUTAMA...
...Fisher and legions of increasingly frustrated Kodak investors, the setbacks brought the need for a course correction into painfully sharp focus. Declaring that "we can't live with a continuing deterioration of our profits," Fisher vowed to embark later this year on cost cuts that he had hoped to spare the company. The prospect must have sent chills through the ranks of Kodak's 94,800 workers--including 34,000 in the company town of Rochester, N.Y., which has already weathered past layoffs. "Earlier in the year we thought we could wait out the price situation and the dollar," Fisher...
...Harvard football team (1-0) is about to embark on one of its longest road trips of the season. But if you listen to the players, it sounds like tomorrow's away game against Lehigh (1-1) is the team's only...