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...really understand how carbon accumulates in the atmosphere. Increasing global temperatures are driven by the increase in the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere. Before the industrial age, the concentration was about 280 parts per million (p.p.m.) of carbon in the atmosphere. After a few centuries of burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels, we've raised that concentration to 387 p.p.m., and it continues to rise by about 2 p.p.m. every year. Many scientists believe that we need to at least stabilize carbon concentrations at 450 p.p.m. to ensure that global temperatures don't increase more than about...
...private label in a single size, Aldi executives say they can substantially undercut conventional retailers on 90% of the products the store sells. Nor do customers have to make any trade-offs in buying private labels. Consider the sleek, dark 16.9-oz. bottle of Ariel Extra Virgin Olive Oil ($4.29). Or the 13-oz. box of Fruit Rice cereal ($1.69). "You wouldn't be embarrassed to have that on your counter," says Bill Bishop, a retail consultant...
...billion in federal earmarks for Alaska since 1995 alone - has been convicted of receiving a few freebies of his own. Stevens, 84, was found guilty Monday on seven felony counts for failing to report $250,000 in improper gifts he received from Bill Allen, the disgraced executive of an oil-services company...
...wake of the verdict, but it's worth noting that those polls had actually been moving Stevens' way, slightly, since he was indicted in July. It's possible that in Alaska, even a sullied Ted Stevens brand could be enough to win him election. After all, with oil prices tanking, voters could well buy Stevens' implied argument for his candidacy - that the state will have a hard time building the kinds of roads, bridges and schools they've come to expect without Stevens there to lard up the federal budget...
Economist David Levy, chairman of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, says economic downturns up to and including the one in 1982 have largely revolved around temporary shocks to the economy such as high oil prices, backed-up inventories, lofty interest rates and other problems responsive to sharp correctives - after which unemployment rates eased in step with other recovery indicators. More recent recoveries from economic downturns, however, have tended to go forward without major gains in employment, a reflection of the fact that the underlying economic problems of modern recessions have been more complex and therefore more difficult to solve. Levy...