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...often lacked. Over the past few years there has been a grassroots groundswell on global warming, but the focus has been on personal action, small behavioral changes individuals can make - or more often, buy - to reduce their impact on the Earth. It's the light bulb theory - switch your wasteful incandescent lights for more energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, and you're doing your bit to save the planet...
...Rogier Bos, speaking for the expert body that advised the minister on the issue, agrees. "If these consumers switch back to LSD, public health will suffer." The synthetic hallucinogen, which has been banned since 1966, is usually sold as a piece of impregnated paper, and thus easier to hide and trade than the bulky mushrooms...
...economic output in the short-term and develop tradeable rights to emissions based on population in the long-term. The Kyoto Protocol, which commits nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, will expire in 2012. The U.S. has not ratified the agreement. “The United States must switch from being a laggard in climate change policy to being a leader if the world as a whole is going to act in time,” he said. According to Holdren, the earth’s surface temperature has been rising steadily since the 1970s, with dramatic environmental effects, including...
...Vanity Fair. Coen currently works as the news editor for New York magazine’s Web site. “Going into the corporate environment, you realize how much freedom you had at Gawker,” Coen said of her move to Vanity Fair, which prompted a switch in work attire from pajamas to something slightly more formal. Gawker postings—which include headlines such as “Anderson Cooper And Jeff Corwin Insanely Homoerotic In HD—But Not In New York”—often incite celebrity outrage. In March...
...design for a building in San Francisco,” Chen says of his summer at an architecture firm between high school and college, “when the client said, ‘I don’t like your design, I’m going to switch over to another firm’. Just like that. That’s what drove me to be on the owner’s side.” Money talks, as the class of 1967 discovered (see sidebar), and for most careers, whoever controls the money controls the project...