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...Beddington eco-village (BedZED for short) is Britain's premier sustainable housing estate. Why? Because it's carbon neutral: the community's energy use and production releases no extra carbon dioxide into the environment. "We wake up every morning and think we're on holiday," says resident Steve Tabard. His neighbor, Danny Burrage, says that outside BedZED, "I don't know anybody who has a flat on the second floor with a conservatory and a garden. The kids love...
...said the challenge for news organizations like CBS is to convey the news to increasingly partisan viewers while themselves remaining ideologically neutral...
...imports account for 62 percent of current domestic consumption, and their contribution continues to increase. A tax on gasoline could promote a switch to more energy efficient vehicles. Politicians, however, show little inclination to take such a step even if the tax were implemented in a revenue neutral form. It could be offset, for example, by a reduction in taxes on income and/or capital. We could institute a purchase tax on gas-guzzlers offset by a subsidy for fuel-efficient vehicles. Again, political will is lacking. Will it take another oil crisis to prompt action? The solution...
...Legal Studies, who charge that the American legal system and its supposedly disinterested rules are prime instruments of social injustice. On the other side are more traditional professors who contend that the faculty "crits" are waging "guerrilla warfare" at the law school. For Dean James Vorenberg, striving to stay neutral in the dispute, the result is "a tremendous sense of vibrancy and energy." But sometimes, he acknowledges, "things get out of hand...
...eternal truths. Some of the C.L.S. adherents, like Kennedy, also flaunt a confrontational '60s style of incivility and antic provocation in relations with their colleagues. But at bottom, he is deadly serious. "The legalization of the rules," Kennedy inveighs, "the presentation of the rules as the consequence of a neutral, legal, analytic process, makes things that are rotten and unjust look inevitable, logical and inherently fair...