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...meat and potatoes and garnished alternately by pickles and pineapple. (We did have ice-cream sundaes, on the appropriate day of the week.) Yet Victor's cooking went down well with the crew?young guys from the Philippines, Maldives and Sri Lanka, who needed heavy doses of protein to fuel their labor. When I felt a push against the waistline of my pants, I started visiting the ship's little workout room for stationary cycling and pulling on the weight machines...
...males. Davis, who was the keynote speaker at the Harvard Center for the Environment’s annual symposium Saturday, discussed her research on the impacts of fossil fuel use. Pollution stemming form these fuels, she said, cause a variety of ailments among industrial workers, including sterility or a preponderance of female births...
...accident. TIMEeurope.com: Ukraine in TIME Strike Two ZIMBABWE The government raised minimum wages and set new transportation fares after 70% of businesses shut down in a massive three-day strike organized by Zimbabwe's Congress of Trade Unions. The strike was called after the government tripled the cost of fuel because of a shortage. As commuter and bus fares doubled, workers faced having to spend up to two-thirds of their income on transportation. The ZCTU dismissed the wage increase as "fire fighting," saying it would do little to protect workers from poor economic planning by the government. This...
...stronger standards for vehicle efficiency, the U.S. could be independent of foreign oil by 2015—and not a moment too soon. However, there is no indication that the federal government is taking these alternatives seriously. The Federal Budget for 2004 allocates a meager $1 billion towards hydrogen fuel cell research, yet vehicle fuel efficiency standards have hardly moved—from 20.7 miles per gallon for an average sedan to 22 miles per gallon. This pork barreling in advanced science is not going to effect the major changes needed...
Changing the driving and car purchasing patterns would be critical in reducing our dependency on foreign oil. Having a fuel efficiency tax or subsidy scheme would be desirable, as well as making efficiency standards increase annually, rather than letting them stay contingent on the wills and wiles of Congress. Most importantly, the U.S. would have to ensure that older, less efficient cars get off the road sooner. To do this with some measure of public support, the government would have to provide incentives for consumers to buy cleaner cars and retire older ones. To stimulate renewable energy, a carbon...