Word: fixes
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...airlines given carbon caps and then being required to purchase credits from other industries if they exceed their limits. But there's nothing on the horizon for aircraft with the carbon-cutting potential of hydrogen engines or solar energy. "It's not like having leaky home windows you can fix with double glazing," says Leo Murray, a spokesman for the straightforwardly named green group Plane Stupid, which led the criticism of Prince Charles...
...things would be all right as soon as Simon passed him a scrawled note, now framed in Azenberg's office. In its unassuming way the note summed up Neil Simon, the resilient man, the sober craftsman and the confident artist. It read, "Don't worry. I know how to fix...
...months, leaving at least 45 dead and hundreds injured. On Jan. 11, President Iajuddin Ahmed, presumably with the backing of the army, called a state of emergency, imposed night curfews across the country and postponed the elections indefinitely. An interim government promises to revamp the compromised election commission, fix dodgy electoral rolls and root out corruption. Just don't expect an election anytime soon...
...corn ethanol by 2017. The proposal is solid--to a point. You can't use biofuels without flex-fuel vehicles, and currently there aren't many out there. Plus, manufacturing ethanol is a messy process: smokestack pollution can offset what you save from tailpipes. An overall carbon cap would fix that, but even a greener Bush won't go there. "You dirty up a clean fuel if you manufacture it dirtily," says Sarah Hessenflow Harper, an Environmental Defense analyst and a former agricultural adviser for Senators Sam Brownback and Chuck Hagel...
...Americans may think the troops should come home, but I don't. The U.S. destabilized an entire region by attacking Iraq on some trumped-up pretext, so walking away is not an option. The U.S. created the problem and must now fix it. The very Americans who voted Bush into office must accept responsibility for their actions. Mark Lynn Pietermaritzburg, South Africa...