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...year; using electricity will produce about 4,700 lbs of emissions. Both numbers can be larger if you live in a cold part of the country. The problem is that many American houses are poorly constructed and insulated, leaking heat in winter and cool air in the summer - and that's not cheap. Oil and gas prices may have declined in recent months - of course, fuel costs in the U.S. have also been historically low, compared to our counterparts in much of Europe - but most experts believe that's only temporary and expect to see significantly higher costs to heat...
...that they have had a history of interacting with people who are offended to be confused with others of their race. This indignation on the listener’s part is also misplaced. People of all races fail at identifying ethnic minorities. When I was traveling in Tanzania last summer, my two Caucasian traveling companions, a redhead and a brunette, were constantly frustrated that many Tanzanians couldn’t differentiate between them. They didn’t understand that the marker of hair color was overlooked by Tanzanians, who do not usually identify by this feature. Just like...
...York, 65 acres along the Great Peconic Bay was sold in 2006 because girls just weren't attending camp. In New Jersey, three councils merged into a single group with six camps - two of which weren't being used much. Those two probably won't operate next summer, says Mary Connell, CEO of Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey, which will do a cost-benefit analysis of all the region's camps...
...Food Is Back. For the first time in years, pet foods have reappeared on the shelves of our neighborhood convenience store. This is an indicator established by Salah Mahmoud, one of TIME's translators in the Iraqi capital, who told me in the summer of 2003, "Let them start selling dog food at Wardah Supermarket; then I'll know life is getting better." Salah had a German shepherd, and dog food had been an unobtainable luxury during the 12 years Iraq had been under U.N. economic sanctions. (See pictures of life returning to the streets of Iraq...
...fall of Saddam Hussein. Cable TV quickly became ubiquitous, and cell phones soon followed. The shops of Karrada overflowed with big-screen TVs, fridges and air conditioners despite the scarcity of electricity. Upmarket stores suddenly offered such foreign delicacies as chocolates, cornflakes and canned tuna. Then in the summer of 2004, while on a break from Iraq, I got an e-mail from Salah: "Dog food has arrived in Wardah...