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...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 every city...
...longer bitter about high school. You're probably still hung up on any number of petty slights, but when that person who used to call us that thing we're not going to mention here, because it really stuck, asks us to be friends on Facebook, we happily friend that person. Because we're all grown up now. We're bigger than that. Or some of us are, anyway. We're in therapy, and it's going really well. These are just broad generalizations. Next reason...
...ceremony was a feel-good affair, with a marching band and schoolgirls in white chadors with pink butterfly wings. Speakers ranging from Khomeini's grandson to former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani celebrated the endurance of the world's only Islamic system of clerical and democratic rule. And each person who rose to the flower-strewn podium also used the occasion to take a swipe at the U.S., proclaim support for the Palestinian cause, or both...
...this is America, where one person's taboo is another's business opportunity. Hence the arrival of the newest weapon in the corporate team-building arsenal: bouncy castles. Pump It Up (PIU), the nation's biggest chain of indoor inflatable playgrounds--those facilities with enormous, brightly colored balloon-like structures that usually house frenetic children--is now offering business-education programs. (Read "Competence: Is Your Boss Faking...
...When you're on a date, if you understand your primary type and the type of person whom you're going out with," suggests Fisher, "you can better reach them and create more intimacy." (One telltale sign: the ring fingers of directors are longer than their index fingers.) In the future, might singletons be able to use a blood test to zero in on prospective mates, saving us a lot of effort and enabling us to wear jewelry? "Possibly," she says...