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...planet when it's released into the atmosphere. Brazil now ranks fourth in the world in carbon emissions, and most of its emissions come from deforestation. Carter is not a man who gets easily spooked--he led a reconnaissance unit in Desert Storm, and I watched him grab a small anaconda with his bare hands in Brazil--but he can sound downright panicky about the future of the forest. "You can't protect it. There's too much money to be made tearing it down," he says. "Out here on the frontier, you really see the market at work...
...that respect, the landmark ruling on U.S. treaty commitments handed down by the Supreme Court Tuesday seems to be both good news and bad news for Bush and his hard-line colleagues in the office of the Vice President. The court slammed the door on a provocative power grab by the White House, but it also potentially undercut a whole category of treaties, in the process exposing America's weak system for complying with international...
...disposable diapers for his siblings. Now 18, he learned about Kids Company seven years ago as he rode on a London bus. He was about to snatch a handbag, and his accomplice was already seated next to the target, hemming her in against the window. As Walker moved to grab the bag, a stranger tapped him on the shoulder. "You don't need to do that," he said, and gave him the address of a Kids Company drop-in center. "I fell off that cliff," says Walker, "but someone caught me." Would that all British children could say the same...
...You’ve just finished your last final and need to unwind. You grab...
...still adjusting to the collegiate game after playing with boys’ teams for most of her life in her native country.“I played a totally different style of play,” Ryabkina said. “It was all individual. It was just, grab the puck and go beat everybody, never like, try to pass it and create the play.”CROWD CONTROLAfter easily finishing on top of the ECAC standings in the regular season with a perfect 22-0-0 league record, Harvard came into the conference playoffs with the advantage...