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...owned factories, coal is king. But decades of overuse have left sooty skies, polluted streams and eroded topsoil levels. Despite a pledge to cut down its contribution to global warming, China is the second-largest producer of greenhouse gases behind the U.S., with a far smaller economy. In winter, neat circles of coal briquettes are piled high outside city apartment blocks, while peasants shovel unprocessed chunks into their furnaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Dies Beneath | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...Bright's like the guy who invented the crescent wrench. People were probably using something else before that, but he gave 'em a neat and nifty tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Bright: Twilight of the Evangelist | 8/29/2001 | See Source »

...Amway. Once converted, more subtle souls often moved past the Laws. But, explains Tommy Oaks, an itinerant evangelist who has observed CCC on dozens of campuses, "Bright's like the guy who invented the crescent wrench. People were probably using something else before that, but he gave 'em a neat and nifty tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Bright: Twilight of the Evangelist | 8/29/2001 | See Source »

...school, I pretty much know how I want my bedroom to run efficiently. So if I think it makes more sense to put my shoes along the wall than in the closet, parents need to respect that." Kids this age still need to be reminded to keep their rooms neat (15 minutes on a kitchen timer can make light work of the chore), but they also need the freedom to make mistakes. If you redo their imperfect housekeeping efforts, says time-management guru Emilie Barnes, eventually they'll stop trying, and you'll wind up doing it yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Clean Up This Mess! | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...Here we enter upon advanced beard studies - the consideration of differentiated beard styles. Bork's neat, even prissy clip bespeaks something of a law-and-order personality deriving from the Ice People, even as it gestures a little confusingly in an Amish direction - not the full rectitudinous C. Everett Koop model, but a thinner version thereof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Gore, and Other Famous Bearded Men | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

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