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...Green Metropolis, you talk about how corn grown for biofuel raises the price of corn used for food. You also say that eating locally grown food isn't practical for everyone. Locavorism as a consumption preference makes sense. Right now where I am, locally grown apples are coming up. Peach season just ended. I enjoy eating that stuff. But the environmental argument doesn't hold up. I watched a documentary about Portland, Ore., and in it there was a woman who drove her minivan 25 miles to a local farm to buy a few days' worth of produce. So that...
...other people to live more like people in Manhattan? The only way that these things happen is through economic incentive. When the price of oil hit its peak in 2008, the global carbon footprint did something I don't think that it had ever done before: it went down. The way to reduce people's consumption of fossil fuel is to create a disincentive for them to consume...
...bottom-line junkies in Hollywood may look at the middling grosses of Willis's non-hits, and the man's hefty price tag, and conclude that they can do as well with somebody younger and cheaper. But none of today's kids can give an action role the experience, the ingrained grittiness, that he can. There's simply no surrogate for Bruce Willis. As a star and an actor, he's the real, irreplaceable thing...
...region claimed 14 percent of students, while almost half of all students studied in the United States and Western Europe. In 2007, nearly a third of university students could be found in East Asia and the Pacific compared with 23 percent in Western nations. Despite the lower price and greater convenience of schools in his native Singapore, Colin Teo ’12 said he’s glad he decided to come to the U.S. “I don’t think I would have gotten a worse education in Singapore than at Harvard, but I learn...
Eastman called the trend “something to keep an eye on,” but said Schoenhof’s will wait to learn more before investing in a machine due to its $100,000 price...