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...deforestation - announced that the country would accept "avoided deforestation" projects with partners in the U.S. These projects allow companies in developed countries to pay to preserve forests in rain-forest nations in exchange for the carbon credits contained within the saved trees. Indonesia has long been wary of the method, fearing that it would lose sovereignty over its sprawling forests, but the Nov. 18 announcement is a hopeful sign that the country will move to save the nearly 2 million hectares of forest it loses every year. "This is historic," says Tom Houston, managing director of Global Eco Rescue...
...football game. In extreme cases, they might even attend a pep rally. In light of this, FM decided to quiz people on just what they’re planning for this sporty weekend. 1. Favorite Pregame Drink: a) Mimosa - 38% b) Beer - 56% c) Moonshine - 16% 2. Method of Juice Smuggling a) Flask under my Harvard beanie - 25% b) Little sister’s Dora the Explorer backpack - 24% c) 10 shots of Smirnoff should keep me warm till halftime - 51% 3. What time do you plan to go to the Game? a) 30 minutes early to get a good...
...LeWitt was the man who made conceptual art an appealing concept. For almost four decades, LeWitt, who died last year at 78, made immense abstract wall drawings that he conceived but almost never executed himself. His method was to devise a set of instructions - for instance, draw 10,000 ten-inch lines, covering the wall evenly - that could be carried out by assistants or, for that matter, by anyone. Often he never even saw the finished work, much less touched...
Moving? Conceptual art? You don't ordinarily think of it that way, but with LeWitt, it's true. He took a dry working method and humanized it. Now there's a beautiful concept...
...audience posed a number of questions to Sunstein. They asked him about his views on president-elect Obama, whom Sunstein has advised, and questioned him on the value of the “nudge” method in affecting smoking and environmental change...