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...Ducati, which leads the pack in the sport and performance category, will cap production on its $72,500 Desmosedici RR at 1,500. Equipped with a 200-h.p. engine and weighing less than 370 lbs. (168 kg), the Desmosedici RR is one of the fastest street bikes on the planet. "Celebrities like motorcycles because they can go out for a ride with a helmet on and no one knows who they are," says Coldwells. It certainly would be easier to escape the paparazzi on one. Jay Leno and Tim Allen both have Ducatis, and Tom Cruise and Nicolas Cage...
...bodily, musical, linguistic, and spatial—said he hopes that the series will provide glimpses of how different creative minds work.“I’ve had the privilege over the years of exploring and trying to understand some of the most extraordinary minds on the planet,” he said. “I probe those minds and try to figure out how…they carry through projects, doing things which matter for our world.”Explaining what it means to be a dancer, d’Amboise described the fetus?...
...biodiesel boom has a high environmental cost, however. Critics say it's contributing to global warming. Tropical forests help remove millions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year. Burning and clear-cutting not only eliminates one of the planet's crucial air-filtration systems, the process also releases even more carbon dioxide into the air, in smoke or as gases released during the decomposition of forest waste. Annual clearing of Indonesia's carbon-rich peatlands alone releases some 1.8 billion tons of greenhouse gases, according to a Greenpeace report. Indonesia is the world's third largest emitter...
...carbon dioxide emissions and those of acid rain or smog. The carbon dioxide emitted by power plants, automobiles, steel mills and home furnaces doesn't just affect our local environment or the lakes and forests a few hundred miles downwind; it accumulates in the atmosphere and affects the entire planet. U.S. emissions are changing the climate in Africa and Asia, just as the soaring emissions of China are affecting America's climate. The results are already deadly, causing failed crops in Africa, killer heat waves in Europe, extreme droughts in the U.S. southwest, and more. And much worse...
Climate change is truly a worldwide threat, yet it will only wreck the planet if we remain paralyzed with unreasoning fear and inaction. Like so many other problems that we've solved, this one too can be overcome through a combination of foresight, knowledge and ingenuity. And this time - if we're really smart about it - we'll have the whole planet working together in common cause...