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...precious creatures who need to be protected. But the past few years have seen women's banks and investment companies proliferate across the Middle East. Arab women, increasingly well educated and common in the workplace, are seeking financial independence. In the Gulf, flush with wealth from the oil and gas boom, they are looking to invest in more sophisticated vehicles than the traditional stashes for women's assets: banks and property. The Kuwait Stock Exchange has a women's floor; during the Arab stock boom of 2006, women in Dubai lobbied for their own corner on the stock exchange, complete...
...global warming, immigration and stem-cell research, but he has spent nearly three decades in the Senate. McCain has said that if elected, he would move to pass $1 trillion in corporate tax cuts and make Bush's income tax cuts permanent, cut wasteful government spending and pass a gas tax holiday, and seek to allow offshore drilling to help ease the energy crisis - almost none of which has support from Democrats. Obama has said he would pass two new economic stimulus packages, move to end the war in Iraq and shore up the Veterans Administration - all goals congressional Dems...
...Aston Martin and some sort of GI Joe digging device on the floor. But this Mustang on steroids designed for NBC's new Knight Rider boasts Lamborghini doors, a top speed of 377 m.p.h. and, most importantly, turbo-boost. All that vehicular decadence helps us forget about $4/gal. gas...
...substance that is the basic building block of life as we know it - without it, our planet might be little more than a dull rock - carbon has gotten a bad rap lately. Bound to two atoms of oxygen, it creates carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas that has kept our planet warm for billions of years - and is now, thanks to human activity, making us too warm. When we think of carbon, the first word we associate with it is emissions, a concept that evokes a tinge of illegality, as if emitting a mere molecule of CO2 were a crime...
...sheer ubiquity of carbon is what makes eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions so difficult. But the surprising truth, Roston writes, is that we have actually been decarbonizing over time. Humanity's main fuel for eons was wood, which has a carbon-to-hydrogen ratio of 10 to 1 when burned; by comparison, that ratio is 2 to 1 for coal and 1 to 2 for oil. The problem is that we're burning ever larger amounts of fossil fuels, putting a greater concentration of carbon into the atmosphere than has been seen for millions of years. Though carbon has its positive...