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...Nicholas Kerton-Johnson Bristol, England Consumers vs. Climate Change I was pleased to see Jim Ledbetter's essay [June 5] pointing out that individuals need help to slow global warming. I could put solar panels on my house, buy a hybrid car, collect and use rainwater and do a host of other things to curb my contribution to global warming, but the cost to do so is way beyond what I can afford. I am more than happy to do my bit, but someone has to help make it possible for me. Ron Kernahan Burnbach, Germany Your article was interesting...
...offered. An attendant comes back with what looks like a yellow-and-black plastic lunchbox. Inside are gem diamonds of all varying types and sizes. There are no negotiations over price, only an implied choice: Take it or leave it. These events are called "sights," and the host is De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. The stones passed out here represent slightly fewer than half the total carats released to the world every month. To be a "sightholder" means you have convinced De Beers you will not make waves by selling too much from the box at wholesale or by protesting...
That may explain why a self-effacing comic like Ellen DeGeneres became a hit and an un-shut-uppable genius like Roseanne bombed. "So many producers have wasted millions of dollars on people who are great talk-show guests but not great talk-show hosts," says Live with Regis and Kelly executive producer Michael Gelman. A host must subordinate his or her identity in service of the larger work--what the poet John Keats referred to as "negative capability," although he was talking about verse, not wearing pinstripes and doing product placements for Coke...
...PANDORA.COM This site allows you to personalize any musical lineup with ease. Simply enter your favorite artist or tune, and a host of others that are similar in style and sound are automatically cued...
...Tata's ideals survive today. Tata Sons, the holding company that manages the group, is 65.8% owned by 11 charitable trusts, which spent $379.2 million on social causes in 2003-04 alone. Over the following 12 months, Tata companies donated another $97.8 million. Beneficiaries range from a host of Tata educational, health and scientific institutes that dot India to the Ganges River's giant mahseer fish, saved from extinction by a Tata-funded breeding program...