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...countries responsible for 55 percent of greenhouse gas outputs, which means that even without the participation of the world's largest carbon gas polluter Kyoto can still be implemented if all the other industrialized nations agree. To that end, a conference was held in Marrakech, Morocco, last month to hammer out a rulebook that would turn the treaty into law, and agree on sanctions for non-compliance. Although the agreement at Marrakech has reduced the ambitions of the treaty to a 2 percent cut on 1990 emissions levels, Kyoto optimists argue that even such a largely symbolic cut heralds...
...example, because "it felt like it was approaching a cartoon." (Harrison Ford took the job, and the picture earned $300 million worldwide.) Redford says that when reading scripts these days, he misses "wit and subtlety. You either bring the audience in or you go out there and hammer them in the face to get their attention. That seems to be the general state of things. That's just not as appealing to me." He can get grouchy when discussing the film business--a "chickens___ industry," he calls...
...HAMMER ORANGE CANDLE, $70 This candle, about 18 in. tall and handmade in Mexico, is just a taste of what you can find at Novica.com From paintings to rugs to jewelry, the site features the handiwork of artisans from Brazil, Morocco and other exotic locales...
Leckey and Neal's children are grown, but couples like the Lowrys and the Mileckis, who work and take care of kids as well as parents, are surveyed in a new study by Margaret B. Neal and her colleague Leslie B. Hammer of Portland State University. In Dual-Earner Couples in the Sandwiched Generation: How They Manage Their Work and Family Demands, the authors identify strategies that couples adopt to handle their stress. They either increase their emotional resources or decrease the demands on themselves...
...Bernie Mac would seem to come a few places above Joan Crawford but quite a few pages below Bill Cosby. During a stand-up routine in the movie The Original Kings of Comedy, the 44-year-old comedian laid out his idea of discipline: whack a kid with a hammer. "You grown enough to talk back," he ranted. "You grown enough...