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...credit-trading system. The concept was pioneered by the President's father in his Clean Air Act, which cut acid rain in half by allowing U.S. utilities to trade sulfur dioxide credits. Today the system would permit the industrialized countries to trade carbon-emission credits (basically licenses to emit specific amounts of greenhouse gases) among one another and participating developing countries. Because climate change is a global problem, its solution is ideally suited to an international-trading regime. Such trading is the key to solving the political puzzle on climate change as well. It is widely predicted that the developing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for the Son of Kyoto | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...count on reinforcements?or on an easy escape route to other islands. If Commander Robot does give himself up, say palace sources, Arroyo will be there to meet him when he steps out of the jungle. Arroyo may not dwell on her feelings, but at that moment, she might emit a small sigh of relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power and Gloria | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...going to take it anymore) is a good one, especially when the target is not live performers doing something as sublime as Shakespeare, but, on the contrary, dead speakers exhaling dead music that destroys brain cells. It's time for a little rage against the machines that emit such toxins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rage Against the Muzak | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...surprisingly, the no-nukes crowd, once radiated, is more than twice shy. Nuclear power plants may not, as the Bush Administration has pointed out countless times, emit greenhouse gases, but they carry with them their own, very real environmental risks. Most important, there is the matter of where to put all that spent fuel--40,000 metric tons, at last count--that has to be stored for thousands of years. For the moment, most of it is being kept in on-site storage pools, a costly and--according to many observers--risky proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Summer | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...even own a laptop. But that doesn't stop me from wondering what kind of radio waves this wireless wonder emits. After dozens of phone calls to government regulators and engineers, I discovered that the boxes give off what's called effective isotropic radiated power, some of it traveling in the same frequency range that microwave ovens operate. Depending on a number of complex technical considerations, the FCC allows Metricom's transceivers to emit anywhere from 1 to 6 watts of EIRP. Radiated power--words that make me want to duck for cover--drops off precipitously with distance, so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio Freakquency | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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