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...very buggy summer. The good news: whether you are concerned about the West Nile virus or just want to enjoy the outdoors bite-free, there is a fresh crop of products out this year that promise to fight mosquitoes. There are candles, sandalwood sticks, zappers, and traps that emit carbon dioxide (part of what attracts mosquitoes to humans). A Korean cell-phone maker is selling a ring tone that it claims will repel blood-thirsty bugs. The bad news is that the effectiveness of some of these new offerings is questionable...
...cell operating out of Saudi Arabia that reviews targeting decisions for air strikes. New technologies include: 1-sq.-in. strips of glow tape stuck to U.S. troops' uniforms and visible only through rifle optics and night goggles, and tiny Phoenix Beacons, attached to vehicles and carried by soldiers, that emit a flashing infrared beam visible only through specially calibrated night-vision equipment...
...Queens, in the enclosed gravel courtyard outside P.S. 1, there is a large work by Yoko Ono. Yes, that Yoko Ono. Freight Train, 1999, consists of an actual railway freight car on a short length of track, pocked all over with what look like bullet holes. Hidden speakers emit strange ululations, clicks and keenings, sounds that approach the haunted music of Noh plays but fall short of melody as Westerners customarily think...
...area. In addition, the problems resulting from deforestation (soil erosion, flooding, global warming, reduced fisheries etc.) will cost an inestimable amount of money, especially for those regions that rely economically on their renewable natural resources. Even planting new trees will not solve this problem; new trees actually emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb and do not have the root structure to as effectively prevent erosion or the height to provide a sufficient canopy for life underneath. The economic benefits of logging are uncertain at best, while the environmental effects will certainly harm the long-term interests of the region...
...dioxide was traded among companies in the U.S. and Europe. The World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund, which helps countries preserve forest and reduce CO2 emissions, says the number of greenhouse-gas trades and the volume of gas affected will double this year. Experts predict that the right to emit a ton of carbon dioxide, which costs between $3.50 and $6 if purchased in bulk today, will cost between $7 and $12 by 2005. That would make the global market for greenhouse-gas credits worth well over $3 billion a year...