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...trees can process between five and 10 tons of CO2 each year. But the longer the time span, the harder the absorption is to predict. Some companies, such as London's Carbon Clear, say they invest not just in planting trees, but also in ensuring they thrive. But others may not be so diligent and disease, fire and logging can all shorten a tree's life. "You can never be sure the atmosphere sees the benefit," says Dietrich Brockhagen, managing director of atmosfair, a Berlin-based offset provider that avoids reforestation schemes...
...firmer or cuter, but to increase your absorption of calories, so you get fatter on the same amount of food. They don't care any more about your waistline than mice, or your holiday visitors, care about whose house this is. They just know that in a fatso, they thrive...
...respect.” Caring and responsible, she also has a green thumb. Blockmate Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07 puts it bluntly: “She is obsessed with houseplants.” There’s an old wives tale that speaking to plants helps them thrive, so maybe that explains why Nowski, public speaker extraordinaire, has helped her plants grow. After all, it worked for 5,500 girls...
...insult women such as Cheney and Poe. Rather, our conviction is that birth and adoption are the purview of married heterosexual couples. Traditional marriage is God's design for the family and is rooted in biblical truth. When that divine plan is implemented, children have the best opportunity to thrive. That's why public policy as it relates to families must be based not solely on the desires of adults but rather on the needs of children and what is best for society at large...
...onto the front page, when the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, a high-powered, bipartisan assembly of Education Secretaries and business, government and other education leaders releases a blueprint for rethinking American education from pre-K to 12 and beyond to better prepare students to thrive in the global economy. While that report includes some controversial proposals, there is nonetheless a remarkable consensus among educators and business and policy leaders on one key conclusion: we need to bring what we teach and how we teach into the 21st century...