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...Japanese; dioxin pollution has only recently been addressed. In the 1960s, Tokyo's air had the sort of reputation that Beijing's does today. Japan's household carbon dioxide emissions have increased an estimated 40% since 1990. A visit to any department store is to bear witness to an excess of wrapping and packaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Japanese Way | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...peace armies and occupation can bring and has no been invoked in columns and essays to argue against the American invasion of Iraq from day one. If elected as America’s next president, Obama risks creating a different kind of desolation in Iraq, caused not by an excess of American power, but an insufficiency. Obama is selling himself as the President to settle the peace, not continue the war. Yet some of the senator’s recent comments suggest he has far less of an interest in peace than in popularity. In an Associated Press interview from...

Author: By D. MORGAN Potts | Title: The Wrong Type of Peace | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...VEGAS Dolce & Gabbana's Mademoiselle chair ($950) by Kartell embodies Sin City excess and glamour, according to Unica Home shoppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...required to play three sports, and [Belmont Hill] is absurdly dominant in athletics,” says Fuller, who ran cross-country, wrestled, and rowed. “Part of the school’s philosophy is that boys will be boys, they have a lot of excess energy so let’s get them out onto the fields.”But he also notes that the school was diverse, and it was possible, if unusual, to break through the traditional macho-man mentality, and participate in other, less traditional, masculine pastimes—like the arts. Sumorwuo...

Author: By Samantha F. Drago, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: When Boy Meets Girl | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...There’s No Home for You Here.” And there’s really no good explanation here, either. None of the musicians involved have any obligatory relationship with the band and, furthermore, if this were merely a phoned-in affair, why the excess of material? At a disorienting fifty-five minutes, it’s nearly twice the length of the band’s debut, and longer than any Stripes album to date.There are redemptive exceptions here that save “Consolers of the Lonely” from true failure...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raconteurs | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

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