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...adopting combined heat-and-power systems; switching from coal to natural gas; embracing renewable and nuclear energy; and favoring more fuel-efficient and hybrid vehicles. In addition, we can reduce and offset up to 20% of our emissions by conserving and restoring the world's forests. Forests not only store twice as much carbon as there is in the atmosphere, but constantly reabsorb it through photosynthesis. Nature's carbon-storage technology is extraordinarily efficient and can mitigate climate change better over the next 50 years than, say, the enlightened efforts of the energy or transportation sectors...
...week ago today, a 19-year-old walked into a department store in Omaha, Neb., pulled an assault rifle out from under his sweatshirt, and killed nine people. That department store is less than five minutes away from my house...
...mother called me last Wednesday afternoon to tell me about the shooting before I could hear it on the news and start to worry. The store where it happened is Omaha’s version of Saks, so it’s conceivable that anyone might have been there on an afternoon close to Christmas. I even had a high school friend who worked there—not so close that I had her phone number, but close enough that I was concerned. No one knew who had been there, who had been hurt, or who had died. A horrifying...
...known as the managing editor and anchor of “NBC Nightly News” for 21 years, is also the author of four best-selling books, most notably “The Greatest Generation.” At the event, which was sponsored by the Harvard Book Store, he presented his latest, “BOOM!: Voices of the Sixties,” combining anecdotes from his life, a brief retelling of the major events of the 1960s, and a reflection on what our nation has gained and how we should best proceed. “What...
...September, Mohamed Shnewer's 12-year-old sister was punched in the face and choked by a boy at her Cherry Hill middle school who called her a terrorist, her family says. Local police are investigating, and the girl has gone to Jordan with her mother. The family's store, along with the Tatars' pizzeria, has closed down because of lack of business, and the Shnewers have put their house up for sale. The Duka brothers' father was detained on immigration charges the day his sons were arrested; now he faces deportation...