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...Robert Young's Jim Anderson on Father Knows Best, Bentley wore suits that were tailored, not elbow-patched, and treated Kelly's adolescent anxieties with the same dextrous paternalism that made him so convincing in the courtroom. (Somehow the girl had more romantic entanglements than her suave guardian.) Nothing special, yet archetypal, the series wafted into homes on a cloud of geniality; its run ended as discreetly as it had begun...
...idea is that if we have a number, we can compare the costs and benefits of efforts to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere," says Frank Ackerman, PhD, an economist specializing in climate change at the Stockholm Environment Institute's center at Tufts University. "If, say, we value CO2 damages at $20 a ton, then $15 per ton is considered an acceptable cost to ameliorate it. If the SCC is $2, spending $15 seems out of line." The other key statistical variable is the "discount rate," which establishes how to account for future costs and benefits in today's currency...
...TIME's special report on the environment...
Although this game holds some special significance for the Blue Devils, Tillman recognizes how important this game is to the Harvard lacrosse program...
Scroll through your Facebook newsfeed these days, and chances are you'll feel like a slacker. Why? Because everyone and his uncle seems to be getting ready to run a marathon. They're asking for donations, creating special support-me-while-I'm-training groups and posting status updates about returning from a 20-mile run at an hour when most sane people are lazily rolling out of bed. The nonprofit group Running USA reports that there were 467,000 marathon finishers last year, up nearly 10% from 2008 - and the highest number of finishers to date...