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...ground. "This is the rye-bread bakery," he says, yanking his hand back from a waft of scalding, sulfurous steam. A chef in a nearby hotel, Jonasson estimates his kitchen staff bake roughly three tons of the sweet, dense rye bread in the hole every summer to meet the growing demand, mostly from tourists, for the exotic carb. The bread's price tag - up nearly 20% from last year - has led to some clucking from villagers that the young entrepreneur is cashing in on a local tradition. Jonasson is more pragmatic. "Who are we kidding?" he asks. "This...
...Global Canopy Programme, an alliance of forestry institutions. But a handful of pilot projects, like the one in Noel Kempff and others in nations such as Belize, Indonesia and Madagascar, are proving the logic of paying to keep forests standing. Supporters are confident that when the world meets for the annual U.N. summit on climate change in Poznan, Poland, this month, avoided deforestation will be one of the main topics of discussion. "This is too important not to be front and center on everyone's minds," says Jake Schmidt, head of international climate policy for the New York City-based...
...different photographers who influenced me and so there were all these legendary photographers. I like to talk about the traditions that I learned from Robert Frank and Cartier-Bresson who were legendary to me. I’m in this wonderful place where I get to meet some of the best people at what they...
...cyber infrastructure more than any other on Earth.” He said that the American financial system is especially vulnerable to a type of cyber-terrorism he referred to as “data destruction.” Part of the government’s plan to meet growing security challenges must include increased cooperation between different agencies that collect intelligence, McConnell said. “It is large: we are 100,000 people. It is global: we spend in the neighborhood of $48 billion a year,” McConnell said of the intelligence community, which includes entities...
...want to take a look at their plans in detail and see if they meet a credible test for viability," deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said. "We're pleased to see that everyone is now on board with what we've been saying for some time: that a credible plan for financial viability is necessary if we're even to consider taxpayer assistance...