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...cars and light trucks by 2016, beginning with the model 2009 year. All California needed was a waiver from the federal government, which has been virtually automatic over the past decades - until this decision, the first time the EPA has said no. "It's absurd," says Michelle Robinson, director of the clean vehicles program for the Union of Concerned Scientists. "There is no reason for the Administration to squash this program...
...environmental movement - the first federal climate change bill just passed out of committee, and the new energy bill represents the first increase in fuel economy standards in decades - the EPA move is especially disheartening. "It's going to take time, and it does set back progress," says Robinson. "But there's going to be a wave of opposition to this...
Daniel P. Robinson ‘10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Kirkland House...
...Early in his career (he's still going at age 81), Matheson was fascinated with man's isolation in the post-nuclear world - Robinson Crusoe or Natty Bumppo after the H-bomb or an epidemic. The Shrinking Man, published in 1956 and immediately filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man, considered the effects of radiation on an ordinary fellow who grows smaller and smaller, to infinitesimal size. In I Am Legend, Neville, seemingly the only person not killed or infected by a plague, fends for himself, searches desperately for other survivors and hunts down the bands of infected mutants who come...
...rich, husband. Whenever I get down on myself like this, I turn towards these Five Extraordinary Housewives as sources of inspiration: 5. Carol Brady: Here’s a story of a lovely lady, who was able to raise six children and still sport a smile. How? 4. Mrs. Robinson: Forever immortalized by Simon and Garfunkel, Benjamin Braddock’s temptress reminds us that age is just a number. Here’s to her killer calves and to proving my point that 50 is the new 30. 3. Lucille Ball: I love Lucy. Life is a series...