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...business as usual in Abu Dhabi is extremely carbon-intensive. Gasoline costs less than 50˘ a gal. (13˘ per L), and public transport is all but nonexistent. The World Wildlife Fund says the U.A.E. has the biggest per capita carbon footprint in the world, and parched Abu Dhabi uses more water per person than anywhere else. There are no plans to put a price on carbon, as even the U.S. is considering. Lehmann and others would prefer to see Masdar spend its billions greening Abu Dhabi itself, not building an entirely new settlement in vacant desert. "We have to have...
...most efficient way to shrink the carbon footprint of your menu is to eat less meat, especially beef. Raising cattle takes a lot more energy than growing the equivalent amount of grains, fruits or vegetables: most produce requires about 2 calories of fossil-fuel energy to cultivate per 1 calorie of food energy; with beef, the ratio can be as high as 80 to 1. What's more, the majority of cattle in the U.S. are reared on grain and loads of it--670 million tons in 2002--and the fertilizer used to grow that feed creates separate environmental problems...
This year, Cornell is currently undefeated at home. To win in Ithaca, the Crimson will have to contain Big Red juniors Ryan Wittman and Louis Dale. The 6’6” Wittman averages 18.3 points per game this season and shoots almost 40% from beyond the arch. Dale is also dangerous from beyond the arch, averaging 14.4 points per game and shooting almost 47% from three point range...
...Saturday night there’d be a 15-page draft in an e-mail,” he said.One thing that has remained constant in Sunstein’s life is his love of squash. In 2008, Sunstein said that he played three to four times per week. The sport gave him chances to learn the power of colorful analogy from legendary coach Jack Barnaby ’32, to predict other players’ moves, and, in Sunstein’s first year at HLS, to achieve national supremacy by upsetting what then-assistant-coach David R. Fish...
When I started I had four staff members and I had four typewriters. If I wanted more, I had to buy them myself. I had one paid trip per year, round-trip. So I brought the family down here about the first of January, and I brought them home when the Congress adjourned, usually about the first of August...