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...those affected to invest in more efficient uses of energy. Critics of taxes say that they're open to fluctuation and that certain industries can win exemptions, undermining a tax's efficacy. Opponents of cap and trade systems, meantime, level similar charges. This much is sure: while taxes might fix the short-term cost of emitting CO2, helping homes and businesses figure out how much to invest in energy saving measures, they don't guarantee a drop in emissions. Cap and trade schemes, on the other hand, set the desired emissions level first. "If our aim is to reduce emissions...
...worrying questions. Will creating jobs be that much slower too? Will double-digit unemployment persist even after we emerge from this recession? Has the idea of full employment rather suddenly become antiquated? Is there something fundamentally broken in the heart of our economy? And if so, how can we fix it? See which businesses are bucking the recession...
Devine hopes that by quantifying the nutritional impact of on-the-job constraints, it might finally prompt employers to make some workplace changes. "We are not going to fix the obesity epidemic simply by telling people to eat well and choose good food," she says. "This study is telling us that it is the structure of our lives that makes it very difficult to do what doctors recommend...
...third annual service issue, we've tried something a little different. The first issue was "The Case for National Service," a full-throated call for universal service by Americans young and old. Last year we did "21 Ways to Fix Up America" and convened a summit on service with ServiceNation, a coalition of more than 200 organizations. The high point of that summit was a televised conversation that Judy Woodruff and I had with candidates Barack Obama and John McCain at Columbia University on the evening of Sept...
...Dusk at Cubist Castle” and 1999’s “Black Foliage”—under their belt, co-songwriters Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss parted ways. Doss went on to pursue solo projects under the moniker The Sunshine Fix, while Hart and the remaining members of OTC reformed as Circulatory System, and released their self-titled debut in 2001.That was eight years ago, and until relatively recently, news from the Circulatory System camp, with the exceptions of a few Athens shows and a brief OTC reunion tour, was frustratingly rare. Around...