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...over 150 nations to discuss global warming, would be carbon neutral. The greenhouse-gas effect of the 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide produced to hold the meeting and to fly U.N. staff and participants to New York would be offset by a $15,800 investment in a small-scale hydroelectric project in Honduras. Thus, in terms of its ecological impact on the world's climate, it would be as if the summit had never happened...
...answer is "no." Only the surgeons actually performing joint replacements can make intelligent decisions as to which procedure is best. We study the engineering, the metallurgy, the tribology (friction science) - and the body's responses to these things from the gross anatomic level down to the subcellular, ultramicroscopic scale. We digest hundreds of studies about the clinical science and spend hundreds of hours in conferences hashing over the pros and cons. Then we do the operations and we live with the results for the rest of our lives; they are the swords by which we live or die. So, should...
...Overall, the news is better on math than on reading. Average math scores have been rising slowly and steadily since 1996. The latest scores continue the trend with small increases - two points on a 500-point scale - for both 4th graders and 8th graders...
...compare the “HIV-Positive” campaign to the incredibly successful “Live Strong” campaign of recent years, particularly since both are meant to be fund-raising tools. True, the T-shirt troupe does not enjoy the benefits of Lance Armstrong-scale publicity, which brought the bracelets instant notice. But what really distinguishes the movements from each other is that Live Strong referred to a mantra—although it was a means of raising awareness and funds for cancer research, the bracelets stated “Live Strong” as opposed...
...these stones and that somehow they are not pure, but maybe it's not for everyone." Indeed, after 27 years in business designing her namesake collection of fine jewelry for Tiffany & Co., Paloma Picasso, 58, the daughter of Pablo Picasso, has finally seen her passion for bold, large-scale jewelry and colorful, rough-edged stones come into fashion. When she launched her collection in 1980, Picasso had only been dabbling in jewelry design, creating a line of costume jewelry for Bergdorf Goodman and incorporating jewelry into stage outfits she designed for avant-garde productions in Paris. It wasn't until...