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...Bush environmental regulations b) aurora's willingness to take off her G-string c) a solar flare d) peyote...
...example is British Petroleum. Shortly after Kyoto was signed, BP CEO Sir John Browne set his company's goal of cutting CO2 output 10% below its 1990 levels; four years later, he is halfway there. BP has achieved this in part by reducing the amount of greenhouse emissions that flare away in oil fields and refineries. The company is also looking into cutting carbon content in fuel and boosting the efficiency with which it burns. The oil giant and Ford Motor Co. are providing a $15 million grant to Princeton University, partly to study "sequestering" carbon--stripping the greenhouse element...
Some artists were meant to be stars, conquering the music world with either their charisma or flare (think Madonna), their unique sound (think Rolling Stones), or a combination of both (the king of pop, Michael Jackson). Mirwais fails to fall into any of these categories, despite his best attempts; he even sports some bizarre wire facial ornament on the cover of the album. If he’s attempting to make a statement, he fails, unless the statement is “I’m a Borg.” And someone please tell him to keep that jacket...
...most recent flare-up occurred two weeks ago when the council blasted Harvard for not making the same commitment to Cambridge education as it had through its Boston afterschool initiative...
...world has seen military flare-ups in these parts before. In 1983, to the north, a Soviet fighter downed a Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 aboard. And Saturday's mid-air collision occurred just outside the Gulf of Tonkin, where in 1964 President Johnson used a skirmish involving the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy as a pretext for launching air strikes against North Vietnam, beginning what came to be known as the Vietnam...