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...moral obligation of developed countries to accept binding emissions cuts. Further, the argument goes, since developed countries are historically responsible for the state of the planet, they should pay up by helping developing countries with money and technology to leapfrog to green technology without following the familiar high-carbon path to growth. Only with outside funding will India be able to effectively shift to renewable sources of energy, which, being costlier, will have to be subsidized for widespread use by people like Kumar and the over 400 million Indians still without access to electricity...
...ever gotten so busy at work that you skipped lunch and ended up staring at your hungry reflection in the vending-machine glass in the late afternoon, then you're familiar with this gastro-economic catch-22: losing your job may mean cutting back on food bills, but gainful employment could result in poor eating habits overall...
...gallery was going to install the exhibit. “We’re starting to tell the artists that if you leave the door open, you’re probably going to get people coming by… so there are all these levels of people being familiar with the work and the space,” Adams says.Though the curators were not really looking for a gallery, they have found a space in Cambridge for art that was often pushed underground in Boston. “We were going around galleries and we couldn’t really...
From cupcakes with frosting in Annenberg to apple pie in Quincy, FlyBy couldn’t help but think that New and Improved Brain Break® looked eerily familiar. So we asked some of our fellow late-night diners what they thought...
...coalition air attacks. Soon after the pair were grabbed, their newspaper opened up channels to Taliban commanders in Kunduz, the province in northern Afghanistan where the hostage-taking occurred. Officials from the International Committee for the Red Cross were in direct contact with the captors, according to a source familiar with the negotiations, as were sympathetic local Afghans and tribal elders with ties to the Taliban. (See pictures from a battle in Afghanistan's Kunar province...