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...Franken stumbled as the left's answer to Limbaugh. That experiment--the network Air America--has been struggling ever since it debuted in 2004. Franken left Air America in February, when he declared he would run for Senate; federal regulations prevent that kind of free airtime. It was just as well: the show was deadweight on an otherwise successful career...
Workers from throughout Cambridge joined the demonstration, hoping that if Harvard takes steps to increase wages and prevent discrimination other employers will follow suit...
...obsession with recollection is enhanced by another war raging in the Balkans in the late 1990s - a sharp retort to anyone who contends that Europe had put brutality and tribalism behind it. It was Dutch peacekeepers, after all, on whom fell the shame of Srebrenica, when they failed to prevent the massacre of 8,000 Bosnians at a U.N. safe area...
Each of the strategies they have identified could prevent a total of 25 billion tons of emissions by 2056. (We're now adding 7 billion tons annually, and that figure would double by 2056 without some action.) They are all so-called stabilization wedges, which lower the angle of the line representing carbon-emissions growth and together would reduce CO2 emissions enough to stabilize the carbon concentration in the atmosphere. Efforts to reduce energy use form one kind of wedge. So does improving power plants. Another wedge addresses alternative energy...
...constraints of the solar system prevent the days from getting longer, can’t we all just sleep less? Caffeine has been working its magic for decades; science has now brought us Modafinil—what next? Hopefully the complete elimination of sleep. As Gustav Graves says in Die Another Day, you can sleep when you’re dead. Now that’s efficiency. God bless modernity. And economics...