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...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 be an eco-city," Lehmann says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abu Dhabi: An Oil Giant Dreams Green | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...this history is on show in a historically significant location: the museum is in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, the otherwise obscure district where, in 1938, Ferdinand Porsche built the first VW Beetle, and, a year later, the 64 - the forefather of Porsche sports cars ever since. But you may prefer to skip the history and simply admire the stunningly beautiful automobiles. Car lovers can spend all day taking in models such as the 356 No. 1 Roadster (released in 1948, it was the first sports car ever to bear the Porsche name), an armada of 917 racing cars, and numerous variations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porsche's Auto Exotica | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...money to students,” said Matthew A. Lewis, a first-year student in the Masters of Theological Studies program at HDS. “From a student’s perspective, if keeping the kind of package they gave me meant cutting a few professors, I would prefer to keep my package and lose some professors...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Divinity School To Skim Faculty | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

Pelosi has also been vocal in calling on the President to repeal Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans this year, a move Obama has been unwilling to commit to in the current economic climate; some in the Administration have suggested that it's preferable to just let the cuts lapse when they expire next year. And the House Speaker has refused to rule out investigating former Bush Administration officials, even after Obama said he would prefer to keep the party's focus forward-looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama vs. Pelosi: Can the President Work with the Democrats? | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

Long-time Brighton resident Theresa Hynes—who is also a founding member of Brighton Neighbors United, a community organization dedicated to “preserving the residential character of Brighton”—said she would prefer that BC utilized its existing property holdings more efficiently...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: City of Boston Approves BC Expansion Plans | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

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