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...course, when it comes to race - especially mixed heritage - the line between funny and offensive can be difficult to maneuver. Following Armisen's Obama debut in February, Chicago Tribune writer Maureen Ryan wrote, "Call me crazy, but shouldn't Saturday Night Live's fictional Senator Barack Obama be played by an African American...
Despite rumors to the contrary, the folks at Saturday Night Live say the topic is effectively closed for discussion. Armisen's Obama is here to stay...
...work for an oil company, for example, or an SUV club if you work for Greenpeace). Whatever the strategy, the person holding the cash has to adhere to the rules, no matter what - which is not always easy. A behavioral economist, after all, doesn't have to live with the glowering family member who's fallen off the wagon and is demanding a refund...
...system that would pay rain-forest nations to protect their trees in exchange for carbon credits. (Deforestation is responsible for at least 20% of global carbon emissions.) But at Poznan, negotiations have gotten muddy. Thus far, no one can agree on what the rights of indigenous people who actually live among the trees should be in a forestry carbon market, while Brazil - home to 40% of the world's remaining rain forests - seems against the entire idea of avoided deforestation. (Brazil favors a plan that would have rich countries contribute to a global fund that would work to prevent deforestation...
...seventh birthday and I read it as a book.FM: You read the dictionary front to back?JK: Yes! I still do. And collect dictionaries. It had a great influence on my writing.6. FM: What do you read, besides the dictionary, today? JK: I like to read about the lives of plant collectors and mountaineers. I like accounts of people climbing mountains though I myself do not want to climb mountains. Generally people who write about their adventures in mountains tend to be good writers. 7. FM: Why the interest in plants?JK: I’m a gardener. My name...