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...environment? When will environmentalism move from being a philosophy promoted by a passionate minority to a way of life that governs mainstream behavior and policy? How can we understand that Earth is one big natural system and that torching tropical rain forests and destroying coral reefs will eventually threaten the well-being of towns and cities everywhere...
That's extraordinarily good news for China, whose gigantic size, rapid industrialization and huge domestic coal reserves threaten to pump cataclysmic amounts of CO2 into the air over the next century. While scaling fuel cells down to fit inside cars and trucks has been a challenge, scaling them up or linking them together to run factories and power plants should be no problem...
...also ratified a series of 1997 side agreements Washington negotiated with Moscow. They update the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty and limit any extra interceptor weapons the U.S. wants to deploy to shorter-range models that wouldn't threaten Russia...
...also ratified a series of 1997 side agreements Washington negotiated with Moscow. They update the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty and limit any extra interceptor weapons the U.S. wants to deploy to shorter-range models that wouldn't threaten Russia. But those side agreements still have to be ratified by the Senate, and hard-line Republicans there vow to block them, claiming their passage would strengthen the ABM Treaty, which they want to kill, and make it harder to deploy a national missile defense...
...When their deceptive schemes of John and Algy collide, a series of crises ensue, crises that threaten to spoil their romantic intentions-Jack for Gwendolen Fairfax and Algernon for his intended bride Cecily Cardew. Of the younger female interpretations, Lauren Waisbren gives the role of Cecily Cardew, Worthing's ward, a more ditzy than shrewd rendering, though her phrasing, timing and diction are all impeccable. As her mirrored comrade (and adversary, depending on the scene) Gwendolen, Jennifer Moxin puts her considerable comic vitality to fine work here in what is sometimes mildly bizarre exaggeration, sometimes farcical explosiveness. These two work...