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...Obama have said repeatedly that they would prefer legislative action - in the form of a carbon cap-and-trade bill - over top-down regulation. The House has already passed a bill that would cap U.S. carbon emissions at 17% below 2005 levels by 2020, and the Senate is considering similar legislation. The threat of EPA regulation might be enough to nudge the Senate in the right direction. "We still need to pass a Senate bill because we need a long-term, clear signal about the effort we will undertake to cut carbon," said Jack Schmidt, international climate policy director...
...same story in Sogola. Suleiman Djarra was, in fact, one of the village's last diarrhea victims. Aiseta Traoré watched in horror last February when another of her sons, Ablaye, developed symptoms similar to Suleiman's. "I was terrified," she says. But once she started administering the tablets to her 2-year-old, he "came back to life," Traoré says. Some 3 million children have died of diarrhea since Suleiman did. Now donors and governments have a chance to end this global tragedy. Let's hope they...
...takeover target's chocolates performed less impressively under the lamp, though. The standard Cadbury chocolate bar lost a mark for converting to liquid while Kraft's Toblerone picked up one for being able to withstand conditions similar to those inside the Hadron Collider. The triangle-shaped bar soon lost that point again, though, for stabbing the roof of my mouth when I ate it. (See pictures of the Hadron Collider...
...Harvard is to have a similar outcome this Sunday against a team fresh off a berth in last season’s Final Four, several things will have to fall in place...
Women who frequently drink sugar-sweetened drinks while pregnant may have a significantly higher risk of developing a condition similar to type II diabetes, according to a recent study conducted by Louisiana State University and Harvard researchers...