Word: switches
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...identify fossil-fuel emissions as a major cause. And yet, as was widely discussed at a conference of environmentalists, geologists and writers last week in Ankelohe, Germany, public understanding has not translated into even the simplest of public actions. Less than 1% of Britons, for example, have switched their home electricity to renewable sources, even though it requires little more than a phone call to one's existing provider (I should know - I did it last week). Proportions on the Continent are slightly higher, but there's clearly no rush to go green or - shudder - stop driving cars. Why such...
Where do you get your news? I'm not a cable person. I do watch the nightly news, but I switch back and forth 'cause I can't stand commercials...
...switch to rock was fine with this Dylan fan; I loved rock 'n roll as much as folk and was exhilarated to think of the impact Dy;an could have in bringing an adolescent musical form to maturity. But by 1966 he wasn't having nearly as much fun making music as I was listening to it. The kid who wanted to be Elvis could now imagine dying like Buddy Holly: "You end up crashing in a private plane in the mountains of Tennessee. Or Sicily. ... I just wanna go home." He went home to upstate New York and crashed...
...grandfather? Never thought I'd be a grandfather. You know, when you're in your 30s, you don't think about the end of your life. And I didn't think about it so much when I got to 40. But when I turned 50, it was like a switch went off. All of a sudden you think, boy, how fast the last 20 years went. You realize how important life is, how short life is and what's going to happen after life. Is that it? Or is there something beyond life that God has for us? The Bible...
...Labor leader Kim Beazley will have a difficult job convincing Middle Australia that the government has abandoned them and that his party of the workers is also the champion of the upward mobility. Perhaps he'll flick the switch to envy, like his predecessor Mark Latham. At the very least, Beazley must be hoping the new workplace regime makes life less comfortable for working families by the time the election is called...