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...plus countries a long, long time to agree on anything. So it can sometimes seem, in the torpid heat of Bali, that the calls for action will go unheeded, that we'll never get our act together in time the meet the demands of science, which call for a peak on global carbon emissions to be reached within a decade or so, followed by rapid reductions. That we'll conference ourselves to death...
...Daft Punk record an album of performance in front of 18,000 dancing humans? For the same reason they recorded a live album in the first place. As they put it: it’s amazing what you’ll find face to face. Their creativity reaches its peak in the context of defying expectations with spectacular, surprising mixes—something only possible with a giant audience filled with fans, not a tiny gathering of hipsters. For Daft Punk, the more, the better—for them and the music. —Reviewer Elsa...
...think you've reached the peak of your career? -Luke Montgomery Brisbane, AustraliaI hope not. And I don't even know if this will be my career in 10 years. I might become a fighter. A heavyweight. All I've made is the weight...
Labour needs money. Income from dues has tailed off as membership has fallen from a modern peak of more than 400,000 in 1997 to 177,000 last year. Its debts stand at $54 million. Plans for a snap election, conceived during Brown's brief honeymoon to capitalize on his popularity, added urgency to fund-raising efforts, but were abandoned as Labour's ratings plunged. The fallout damaged Brown badly. "The root of our problems is the dithering over whether to hold an election," says a former government adviser. "Politics can be shaped by a collective mood which shifts...
...Cambridge; they exhibit the same blatant lack of conscientiousness in laundry rooms across campus. From Thayer to Quincy, Lowell to Cabot, this immaturity is rife at Harvard, and doesn’t seem to end until graduation (if at all). Washers and dryers are in high demand at peak hours, like Sunday afternoon and Thursday night. Students, overwhelmed by pressing commitments, naturally want to load and leave as quickly as possible. So, with all machines “in use,” it’s tempting to drag others’ clothes haphazardly from washers as soon...