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...lights in Tokyo, an SUV sitting in traffic on the freeways of Santa Monica. But while industry, electricity and transportation all add to the greenhouse effect, there's another villain less well known: our forests. Or, rather, the lack of them. Forests, especially in the lush tropics, suck and store carbon, which is released when trees are cut down or burnt. At the current rate of destruction, deforestation is estimated to account for up to 20% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The amount of carbon stored in tropical forests is staggering - Brazil alone has nearly 50 billion tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Trees | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...yesterday of raping a former Harvard undergraduate and sentenced to seven to 10 years in prison, a Middlesex district attorney spokesman said. Duncan W. Purdy, who ran About Hair, a salon and antique shop on Arrow Street, was found guilty of raping the 19-year-old woman in his store in March 2004, District Attorney Gerry Leone’s office said in a statement. The woman had come to the salon for a scheduled massage with Purdy, but was raped during the course of the massage, according to a statement released by the district attorney. The victim approached police...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Salon Owner Raped Student | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Globally, debit is becoming a bigger way to pay, in terms of the number of transactions, than charging credit. Debit has tended to grow up in stores or merchants that were doing business with cash and check. If you go back 20 years ago, you couldn't use a credit card in any grocery store in the United States, basically. It was a rarity. In the U.S., debit is catching up real fast with the rest of the world. MasterCard debit is growing at 15% to 20% per year. That plays into the global capabilities of the organization because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit Cards and Spendthrifts | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

Monthly fee to store the frozen stem cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...undergraduate told police that she was raped by Duncan Purdy, owner of About Hair, a salon and antique store on Arrow Street, in Purdy's salon in March...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: About Hair Owner Convicted of Rape of Harvard Undergrad | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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