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What makes this track particularly compelling is that it departs from the usual stock-in-trade. Though Jones is one of the most soulful singers on the planet, on most of his songs there is always a lingering feeling he is sharing an in-joke with the listener - that although he sounds as if he's lived every painful moment of every stanza, he really doesn't mean it. It's an impression brought home in concert, where there is no torture, just a vague awkwardness, as he sings his tortured tunes (indeed, he often jokes on stage about "heart...
Last call for saving the planet... The final round of negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol on climate change opened in the Netherlands on Monday, and right now Earth's prospects don't look so good - that is if you believe, unlike would-be president-elect George W. Bush, that there is a scientific link between global warming and carbon gas emissions. The current talks are being held to meet a deadline for finalizing the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrialized nations to dramatically reduce emissions from the use of oil, coal and other fossil fuels. Kyoto emerged out of concern...
...Clinton administration is sending its negotiators to The Hague to press for concessions that will make the treaty easier on the U.S., but Europe and the developing world aren't in a forgiving mood toward the country that single-handedly produced 36 percent of the planet's greenhouse gas emissions in 1990. Washington wants exchangeable "credits" for countries that make progress in cutting emissions, which can then be purchased by the U.S. and other big polluters. It also wants credit for planting forests designed to soak up carbon gases, and to avoid the treaty's prescribing financial penalties...
...many cases, though, the ground-based giants can find their own way through the universe. Geoff Marcy, for example, leader of the world's most prolific planet-hunting team, began his research at the relatively modest 3.5-m telescope at Lick Observatory in California. Then, in 1996, he moved most of his project to the Keck, with dramatic results. "We've discovered 35 planets orbiting sunlike stars so far," says Marcy, who holds joint appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. "And the majority of them have been with the Keck...
Indeed, Marcy announced last year that he'd found a planet the size of Saturn--the smallest yet discovered. "We think we can get down to the level of Neptunes," he says, "which are only 10 times as massive as Earth." Despite having so many planets in hand, Marcy and other astronomers haven't found anything like our home solar system: most of the planets found elsewhere are not only huge, but they career around in orbits that would fling smaller, Earth-like planets out into space--a discouraging start to the search for life in the galaxy, though...