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Well, my advice is to put aside your skepticism and give the Green Century report in this issue a close look. Prepared by Charles Alexander, who has edited TIME's environmental specials for the past 13 years, the report is at its root a declaration of optimism. Yes, our planet is under siege from the combined pressures of air and water pollution, global warming and overpopulation. But new technologies, innovative, market-based incentives and a growing mainstream acceptance of green concerns offer hope that real progress is within reach...
...dial-up modem speeds, however, it's more like Click-N-Crawl. Lindows tries its best to act friendly and look Windows-like, but right now it's hard to use for half an hour without a lot of jargon about the root directory and other comp-sci stuff appearing on the screen. It will run a lot of Windows programs--games being the major exception. (Robertson has backed off earlier claims that his system is entirely Windows compatible.) Basically, Lindows is a work in progress. Stand by for the final release...
...ideas are taking root worldwide. BASF Corp.'s carpet-fiber unit has developed a recyclable nylon that makes it possible to reconstitute old carpets into new. Swiss semiconductor maker ST Microelectronics has saved more than $60 million by cutting its energy usage and more than $20 million by reducing water consumption below baselines set in 1994--a program initiated after CEO Pasquale Pistorio's son Carmelo questioned his father's environmental stewardship. The company issued a "decalogue"--or 10 commandments--of environmental goals and empowered its divisions to become creative. The responses include using solar power and finding ways...
...home. Learn as much as possible about your child's native holidays and celebrations, and incorporate some of these into your family traditions. Keep up with major current events and sporting events from your child's native culture. (Korean-American adoptees say they felt lucky having two teams to root for in the recent World Cup soccer matches...
...That's a place the U.S. is finding itself more and more in Afghanistan?caught between backing regional strongmen who will help root out al-Qaeda, and the people Karzai has sent out to build a coherent Afghan nation. Two weeks ago, both U.S. officials and Karzai's government were embarrassed by reports that Uzbek commander Rashid Dostum, who worked closely with U.S. special forces around Mazar-i-Sharif during the early part of the anti-Taliban war, might have suffocated Taliban POWs in shipping containers and buried their bodies in mass graves. Zadran is the Dostum of Afghanistan...