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...findings imply that controlling biomass combustion, particularly the small-scale burning of wood and dung for home heating and cooking common throughout Asia and Africa, will be an important step towards improving the world's air quality. Gustafsson, a professor of biogeochemistry at Stockholm University, urges environmentalists not to limit their efforts to curbing car traffic and coal-fired power plants. He says fighting poverty and spreading green technologies that limit emissions from small-scale biomass burning are equally important. "More households in South Asia need to be given the possibility to cook food and get heating without using open...
...authors of the bill are not willing to follow their own logic, so they have crafted another plan. The first assumption of what the program will do, and among the most important of its goals, is only mentioned in passing. "This package is the first crucial step in a concerted effort to create and save 3 to 4 million jobs." This is a little twist on what is being said in public...
...third-party liquidators step in. Creditors don't want to see the stores themselves running clearance. Why trust the executives who put a company in bankruptcy to manage a sale that covers their losses? Plus, soon-to-be unemployed managers are busy fishing for other jobs. They don't have a real stake in the sale. (Read "Q&A with Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson...
...next step for both researchers and policymakers is determining which sources of dirt - power plants, motor vehicles, other industrial polluters - make the biggest contributions to particle levels and thus should be most aggressively targeted. "In a difficult economic situation," asks Dockery, "where can we spend the dollars that would have the most benefit...
After six years serving as masters of Winthrop House, Stephen P. Rosen and Mandana Sassanfar announced plans to step down at the end of this academic year. They informed the House community in an e-mail Wednesday, citing personal reasons for the decision. Though Winthrop residents said the announcement didn't come unexpectedly—Rosen and Sassanfar have children, some of whom will soon be attending college—they said the Masters would be missed for their warmth and welcoming nature. "To me, the most important thing about them: They're just kind, normal people that you want...