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...your emissions by funding a carbon-reduction project elsewhere in the world.) Altogether, Carbonrally's 2,000 users have averted more than 150 tons of CO2 emissions since the site was launched in October 2007. "We put the challenges in bite-size chunks, but that adds up," says founder Jason Karas...
...does the X7 make foolproof crema? "Pressure--this is the old story," says Andrea Illy, 43, a grandson of the company's founder. After years of research, "we ended up discovering we had to change the way espresso was prepared." Thus was born illy's iperEspresso brewing system. The X7 brews shots from capsules you purchase--prepacked plastic thimbles that hold about 7 g of espresso. Though the system sounds similar to what a competitor, Nespresso, has been selling for years, illy says the X7 has a unique, two-stage process: hot water is injected into a chamber and infuses...
...provided equally for everyone, or is it fair to pay more for better health care? "Obviously there needs to be a standard of care we should try to obtain at a certain level for everyone in the country, and we're not there yet," says Dr. Raphael Darvish, founder and medical director of Concierge Medicine in Brentwood, Calif. "Beyond that, there are things people should be able to pay extra for." Given the insurance companies' strict rulebook, says Darvish, neither patients nor doctors have much choice. "I think the incentives are all wrong," Darvish says. "They...
Both co-defendants built their careers around marijuana: Cusick is associate publisher of the well-known marijuana magazine, High Times, and Stroup is the founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. They said that they do not believe marijuana to be a social...
...ranking of the university’s most influential alumni. In last year’s list, the top five, in order, were former Vice President Al Gore ’69, President George W. Bush, Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Allon said he intends to have a dinner in the fall honoring next year’s Harvard 100. Allon also said he plans to publish similar magazines and rankings for each Ivy League school. While no timeline has been set yet, Allon, an alumnus of Cornell and Columbia...