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...Cutting Carbon Emissions: Idea No. 52 The biggest way to reduce carbon emissions wasn't listed [April 9]: don't have more than two children. Although the impact is very high, the feel-good factor is very low. Overpopulation is the biggest factor contributing to greenhouse gases, but nobody likes to point it out. How much carbon can one person generate in a lifetime? Quite a lot - especially if you're American. If we don't voluntarily reduce our population now, nature will do it for us, whether we like it or not. Adam Kim, REDMOND, WASHINGTON...
...games,” says Brine. “Golf keys in more on flexibility and balance, which translates to balance on the ice, [whereas] hockey focuses a lot on core strength that translates into golf with the power of your swing.”Ultimately, the impact that Finelli and Brine provide to their teams isn’t lost in the transition from a grass field to a hardwood court. It seems that a hockey stick and a golf club might not be so different after...
...January, the newly elected Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), when unveiling a Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming—named in the spirit of bipartisanship, no doubt—gave it this benediction: “The science of global warming and its impact is overwhelming and unequivocal.” But then last Wednesday at the committee’s inaugural meeting, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the ranking Republican, countered: “One area where there is no scientific consensus…is the effects of climate change.” Common ground...
...repeal and spent thousands on the effort to shoot it down, still wields on Capitol Hill. To some legislators, special interest groups are apparently more important than the good of elderly Americans. Since Medicare recipients are such an enormous group of customers, we understand that the repeal might impact the pharmaceutical market in unforeseen ways, especially with respect to incentives for developing new or unique drugs. Nevertheless, pharmaceutical monopolies that are not counterbalanced by bargaining on the part of large purchasers cost consumers dearly. By allotting Medicare the right to negotiate drug prices on behalf of consumers, the federal government...
...Vision for the Future.” “We have to embarrass people being dumb and greedy,” Heinz Kerry said. Kerry said he and Heinz Kerry chose the title of their book because U.S. policy in the next 10 years will have a decisive impact on the future of the environment. “The urgency kept coming back to us,” Kerry said. “We face a series of potential tipping points.” During his talk, Kerry criticized the Bush administration’s proposed changes...