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...Available for more than two years in Japan and much of Europe, cell-phone banking has been slow to catch on in the U.S., in part because of lack of interest. Wells Fargo shuttered its mobile banking offering in 2002 after only 2500 people had signed up over 18 months. (It plans to launch a new service later this year.) A recent study by Forrester Research found that only 10% of Americans said they would consider mobile banking, versus the 35% or so who already bank online. "It's hard to motivate someone to download something on their phone...
...They just outmatched us at the beginning in every way,” Crimson coach Sarah Nelson said. “They were faster, tremendous shooters, and quicker to the ball. I thought we had a slow start, slower than I would have liked...
...climate change. Its complement is mitigation--any measure that will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, such as drawing power from a wind turbine rather than a coal-fired power plant. Mitigation addresses, if you will, the front end of the global-warming problem; by cutting emissions, it aims to slow rising temperatures. Adaptation is the back end of the problem--trying to live with the changes in the environment and the economy that global warming has and will continue to generate...
...smaller 1.12. Yet that is going to change. Up to 50% of the Indian population lives almost entirely off the grid, and the government is determined to bring them aboard. The Chinese economy has been growing at the rate of 10% a year, and Beijing is not inclined to slow down. China is expected to pass the U.S. in total greenhouse emissions before...
...They just outmatched us at the beginning in every way,” Crimson coach Sarah Nelson said. “They were faster, tremendous shooters, and quicker to the ball. I thought we had a slow start, slower than I would have liked...