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...from Washington on carbon emissions. Duke Energy, the third largest emitter of CO2 among the nation's electric plants, faces a Supreme Court hearing this fall over its failure to install up-to-date pollution controls during refurbishment of coal-fired plants. But at the same time, chief executive Jim Rogers has been vocal in calling for "mandatory, market-based and economy-wide legislation at the federal level to address the carbon issue" sooner rather than later. "What we need now is to understand what the rules are going to be. Only then will we know how to invest...
...dwell on either the force of arms or politics. We were conscious that Europe had changed, and in many ways for the better - but we knew that it still had great challenges ahead. So we set out to produce an issue with the theme Europe's New Frontiers. Jim Ledbetter, a senior editor of Time Atlantic who masterminded the project, says, "From the beginning, when we asked writers to suggest stories, it became clear that we were asking people to think of frontiers in an entirely different way. The suggestions were so strong and varied that I knew...
...pushing back. Microsoft is waking to the ad-revenue world, legions of Web 2.0 start-ups are dreaming up useful new tools, and Ask.com and Yahoo! are closing the gap in search. "People have been brainwashed that search can't get any better than Google," says Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone. Ask has dumped its gimmicky Jeeves icon and zoomed in on search, sensing an opening...
...Founded by Maestro Paul Freeman, the Chicago Sinfonietta - the most racially diverse orchestra in the country, according to a recent survey - has long struck a chord with fans of innovative classical music. "We've done some pretty wacky things," says executive director Jim Hirsch. "You haven't heard anything until you've heard thirty steel drums banging simultaneously with an orchestra." Hirsch says the Sinfonietta had also hosted concerts with bagpipes, and once featured an Indonesian gamelan orchestra, using gongs and mallet-struck instruments. Two years ago, the Sinfonietta collaborated with alternative rock band Poi Dog Pondering in a "remix...
...presidential race that is bringing hopefuls including John McCain, Bill Frist, John Edwards and Evan Bayh to northeastern Iowa these days. They're pitching in to help candidates vying in one of the most hotly contested, crucial 2006 congressional races. That's because after 15 years in Congress, Republican Jim Nussle is giving up his seat representing Iowa's 1st district to run for governor, making this rare open seat a must-win if the Democrats have any real hope of regaining control of the House of Representatives...