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Natsource arranged for Schrepel to pay a retail price of $17 a ton for carbon dioxide that is part of the natural chemistry of a 1,200-acre patch of Illinois grassland in a nature preserve. In return for part of that payment, the land's owner agreed not to burn, pave over or otherwise release that carbon dioxide. Schrepel wryly explained to her interns that buying the credits would help offset the carbon dioxide they emitted by, among other things, breathing...
...live in that useless patch of land between New York and California called America...
...Paris museums he could see original paintings, including Delacroix's Christ Asleep During the Tempest, and his letters abruptly start to exult about color over content: "Christ in the boat ... with his pale lemon-yellow aureole, luminous in the dramatic purple, dark blue, blood-red patch of the group of disciples, on that terrible emerald-green sea ... what an inspired conception!" He had read about Impressionism, too, but imagined it to be simply the use of lighter tones. In Paris he discovered such older painters as Monet and Pissarro, and met the young avant-garde of the day: Toulouse-Lautrec...
...Prime Minister Hun Sen. Cambodian politicians have long played to Khmer nationalism, and on Jan. 27, Hun Sen, facing general elections this summer, legitimized the rumors by calling Suvanant "Thief Star" and declaring at a ceremony outside Phnom Penh that the "Thief Star is not even equal to a patch of grass around Angkor Wat." Two days later, fictitious rumors that Thais were killing Cambodians in Bangkok inflamed the Phnom Penh...
Fort Stewart sits on 280,000 acres of piney woods and swampy fields in the sweet-onion patch of coastal Georgia. This is as regular as regular Army gets: no frills, no illusions, lots of buildings that look as if they were meant to be temporary back in 1941. It's cold this week at Camp Swampy, down in the 20s in the morning as the last-minute training picks up and the clock ticks down for the company commanders. They must make sure that every soldier is qualified to handle his weapon, meaning he can snap-shoot a quarter...