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...There must be this weird, primal thing in people that they react to. There are so many love stories that come out. So many vampire stories that come out. Even the load of vampire stories coming out now have the exact same story line. This doesn't have the same reaction. I think it's all about being part of a club. People used to say it was a guilty pleasure. But I don't even think it is that anymore. I think people genuinely appreciate that they are part of something...
...good news is that while taking CO2 out of our energy cycle has proven very difficult - especially in poorer developing nations - black-carbon emissions should be easier to curb. Reducing deforestation will help - the burning of tropical rain forests is a big contributor to the black-carbon load. Next, diesel filters in cars can be upgraded, and biomass-burning stoves can be exchanged for technology that uses solar power or natural gas. These changes will cost money, but they should be cheaper than decarbonization. And cutting back on black carbon will also pay immediate health dividends, with less air pollution...
...Jintao and the rest of the Chinese leadership aren't inclined to lecture visiting Presidents, he might gently hint that Beijing is getting a little nervous about the value of the dollar - which has fallen 15% since March, in large part because of increasing fears that America's debt load is becoming unmanageable. (See TIME's special report "Obama After a Year: What's Changed, and What Hasn...
...long term, the company could recover. "I don't feel threatened by the stroller," says Greg Allen, a father of two who writes Daddy Types and who plans to keep using his Maclaren. And before saying how "really pissed off" she was about the recall, the author of Mother Load wrote, "I'm not ready to break up with you, Maclaren." The question is how many Maclaren parents will forgive and forget...
...strollers had a reputation for dependability. Now they're the ones that could cut kids' fingers off. The search terms "Maclaren fingertip amputation" pulled up more than 5,000 results on Google. The parent blogs are buzzing. One, Daddy Types, has dubbed the affair Macopalypse 2009. Another, called Mother Load, wrote the post "MacLaren recall: is there nothing safe?" The author wrote, "Fingertip amputation? And they had to get to TWELVE cases before they issued a recall?" (See iPhone apps for new moms...