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...wasn't. (Any similarities to where we stand on global warming are purely intentional.) The government could simply mandate reduced emissions, or force power plants to install expensive SO2 and NO scrubbers, but that might not be efficient. To Sandor, the answer was clear: markets. He wrote a position paper for a green group arguing for the creation of a cap-and-trade system for acid rain, one that would put a government-mandated limit on the level of pollutants power plants and factories could emit, but allow companies that came in under the limit to trade their excess capacity...
...American manifest destiny at its finest: a ray of sunlight bursting through the clouds above a towering range of imaginary mountains. Her date slouched against a pillar nearby, his hands in his pockets. In front of him was a framed shipwreck chalked on brown paper. Another couple lounged between the Ionic columns, their chitchat dramatized by theatrically yellowed lighting. They were framed against the white wall, and as the night progressed, the negative space between their profiles shrank and shrank again. Beneath them, on the dance floor, the tipsy teetered on their high heels and clung to their partners?...
...Charles is one of the world’s leading scientists studying copy number variation in the human genome—a field he helped create with a seminal paper in 2004,” David M. Altshuler, director of the Program in Medical and Population Genetics at the Broad Institute, said in a statement. “We are thrilled at this well-deserved honor...
...Lewis, a professor of biology at Northeastern, said that the underlying hypothesis of this paper suggests that the properties of soil bacteria that allow them to grow on antibiotics also allow them to resist antibiotics in more complex environments, like in an organism...
...Eldorado remained focused on the FLDS. The local paper, the Success, has been key to keeping it in the news. When Mankin and his wife Kathy (who is the office manager and reporter - their son covers sports) bought the paper in 1994 they were committed to covering hard news. The FLDS story became a steady feature on the paper's pages. "It's four miles from our front door and our job was to educate the readers," Mankin says. The paper did more, uncovering FLDS plans for compounds in Colorado and South Dakota long before other, bigger media, and offering...