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...former assistant and deputy chief of staff to President Clinton challenged the notion of a guest worker policy for America during her speech at the JFK Forum last night, advocating that immigrant workers should be able to choose whether or not to stay...
...urge the U.S. Congress to ratify the treaty. Pieter Walraven Aix-en-Provence, France Windmills and solar power are valuable sources of clean energy but clearly limited in their potential to meet soaring needs. In warning of catastrophic climate change, Time referred to the environmentalist James Lovelock and his notion of Earth as a living superorganism that he calls Gaia. But the story ignored his endorsement of nuclear power, about which he says, "There is at present no other safe, practical and economic substitute for the dangerous practice of burning carbon fuels." Christina Ritch London time's report painted...
...coincides with Earth Day celebrations, but the real inspiration for the theme came from jewelry designer John Hardy, who lives and works in a wholly sustainable home and factory in Bali. When I first met with him in New York City about a year ago, Hardy talked about the notion of sustainable luxury and the idea of constantly thinking about and creating environmentally friendly products and buildings. Initially, it seemed absurd to correlate luxury and sustainability, but there was something compelling about his passion for the concept. Here we take a closer look at the success of companies like natural...
...Center for Astrophysics’ Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. It is the first optical telescope dedicated specifically to the search for alien life. “About half [the people we talk to] think we’re looking for UFOs, and I try to dispel that notion,” says Andrew W. Howard, a graduate student working on the project. So they’re not searching for giant saucers in the sky or some Twilight Zone-style phenomena. Instead, they’re hoping to identify extraterrestrial communication, in the form of light flashes from...
This false notion was part of the reason I wanted to be a starting pitcher as opposed to an oft-used reliever, the type who pitches three or sometimes even four times a week...