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...Obama's wattage, other good news emerged. Representatives from Indonesia - the third biggest carbon emitter in the world, thanks chiefly to massive deforestation - announced that the country would accept "avoided deforestation" projects with partners in the U.S. These projects allow companies in developed countries to pay to preserve forests in rain-forest nations in exchange for the carbon credits contained within the saved trees. Indonesia has long been wary of the method, fearing that it would lose sovereignty over its sprawling forests, but the Nov. 18 announcement is a hopeful sign that the country will move to save the nearly...
...despite the fact that “housing” is not a concern unique to urban areas. Rural spaces are alternately administered by programs of the Department of the Interior, such as the Bureau of Land Management, and by those of the Department of Agriculture, such as the Forest Service. A whole mishmash of special agencies—not to mention state and local programs—fill the interstices...
...smiling more. ‘Coolness’ does not read on television. You’ll just look bored.” So I smiled. And clapped. And jumped and danced and laughed and cheered and hugged. We finally began to tape, our podium framed by a forest of plastic fall-hued trees meant to make the set more collegiate. Somehow, the exterior act of being enthusiastic mutated into real enthusiasm...
...marriage and divorce: "To have sex with someone else's spouse is frowned upon and can be risky, but it happens. If the couple is married to each other, they will just walk off in the forest a ways to have sex. The same is true if neither member of the couple is married. If one or both members of the couple are married to someone else, however, they will usually leave the village for a few days. If they return and remain together, the old partners are thereby divorced and the new couple is married. First marriages are recognized...
...fashioned mysticism and modern techno-speak. In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, he explains that "the physical universe is nothing other than the Self curving back within Itself to experience Itself as spirit, mind and physical matter ... The same laws that nature uses to create a forest or a galaxy or a star or a human body can also bring about the fulfillment of our deepest desires...