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...couldn't do all he wanted to. Financial considerations contributed to cutbacks in the number of solar panels and non-polluting fuel-cell power generators. Nonetheless, Durst has drawn a nod from environmental advocates. "This is a good first effort," says Joseph Romm, executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions in Washington. "The skyscraper is the symbol of American architecture, and Four Times Square has changed the way we think about them...
...have come at a better time. As in now. "Bill Bradley wasn?t really counting on getting the union vote anyway, but he was pushing hard for a delay," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Because if the AFL-CIO convention had come and gone without the nod for Gore, it would have been a disaster. And it would have been more evidence for the perception that Gore?s just not electable...
...When did my dad first declare, ?"I hope they win it in my lifetime"? I can't recall. Long time ago. For some few years now I've been telling fellow Sox fans, "I sure hope they win it in my dad's lifetime." They nod knowingly. They either have dads, had dads or are dads ? or moms, this applies to moms, too ? and no notion can be voiced in New England that gives as immediate and sobering a view of mortality as "I hope the Sox win it in our lifetime." So many lifetimes that, during which...
Buchanan has a tentative nod from the Reform Party's founder and father-figure, Perot, but the arch-conservative's isolationist politics clash with Ventura's libertarian leanings...
Religious vacations may sound unusual, particularly for a communist country, but some form of faith or superstition weaves its way through every element of Chinese life. The new Shanghai stock exchange is built in the shape of a hollowed square to help trap positive energy, a nod to the ancient geomantic rituals of feng shui. And members of China's new middle class are embracing both state-of-the-art technology to transform their economy and 5,000-year-old superstitions to support their lives. "It turns out that the majority of businesspeople in China believe...