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...Until yesterday, no one had talked about measuring [light from the planet itself] directly,” said Charbonneau, who researches at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, based in Cambridge...
...both day and night. Dark from the smoke of thousands of fires, as farmers and cattle ranchers engage in their annual rite of destruction: clearing land for crops and livestock by burning the rain forests of the Amazon ... [Their total ruination] would be an incalculable catastrophe for the entire planet. Moist tropical forests are distinguished by their canopies of interlocking leaves and branches that shelter creatures below from sun and wind, and by their incredible variety of animal and plant life. IF THE FORESTS VANISH, SO WILL MORE THAN 1 MILLION SPECIES?a significant part of earth's biological diversity...
...post an ad for a used computer, for example, in a newsgroup called comp.system.mac.wanted, or to sell flowers in a corner of the Net marked florist.com. Global Network Navigator, one of the first Internet publishers to include advertising in its offerings, now has 45 online clients, including Lonely Planet Publications, an international publisher of travel guides. "The response has been tremendous," says Dale Dougherty of Lonely Planet. "The Internet has opened up a lot of doors...
...company was also always careful to maintain its Japanese roots. Notwithstanding the attractions of low-cost labor elsewhere, Sony continued to source products in a Japan that had-by virtue of the success of the company and others like it-become one of the most expensive places on the planet to do business. In 1989, at the height of Japan-bashing in the U.S., Morita even co-authored a defiantly nationalistic tome-The Japan That Can Say No-with Shintaro Ishihara, now the governor of Tokyo, who believes that Japan should stand up to Washington both militarily and economically...
...Europe is doing and the buying and selling of carbon dioxide?emissions allowances. Not a word about the much larger emissions problem caused by other parts of the world, especially the U.S., which among other nations declined to participate in the efforts of the Kyoto accord to save the planet. Dirk Roggeveen Voorburg, the Netherlands The Kyoto accord is not about saving the earth. It is about saving humankind for a while longer before accelerated climate change wipes out the not-very-wise Homo sapiens. If we were really smart, we would take into account our track record of raping...