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...curb global emission of greenhouse gases. To help make this happen, instead of strictly holding countries to their emission reduction commitments under the Kyoto Protocol, it allows companies and countries to continue to pollute if they offset their emissions by purchasing Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) - each representing 1 ton of carbon - from developing countries -where carbon-reducing modifications to power plants, factories and other facilities would be less costly. This was meant to promote the dispersion of green technology to the developing world, and also give emerging economies like India and China a financial incentive to start cleaning up their...
...have probably about 100 I've collected through the years. Some I kept that were special to me for whatever happened on them. But I don't keep a ton of them for use on a day-to-day basis. Once I get used to a skateboard, it's a part of me. It's really hard to break another...
...like how we’re killing penalties, and I think the kids are becoming much more eager to block the shot and recognize that it gives our team a ton of energy when they do that,” Stone said...
...traveled a distance of nearly a kilometer. In fact, sheer altitude dominates almost every facet of this 492-m property. Dinners in the world's tallest restaurant, and drinks in the world's highest pub, are filled with breathless gawking at the cityscape below. A pair of huge 150-ton dampers - weights that absorb the motion of a swaying building - eliminate sloshing in the world's loftiest pool. The world's fastest elevators must ascend at the rate of 10 meters a second in order to make journey times tolerable. Such is life at the world's tallest hotel...
...from a self-imposed semi-exile on Nov. 6 to speak before 4,000 fans just outside Milwaukee at what organizers called the largest pro-life gathering in Wisconsin history, two things were abundantly clear: Palin is now a thoroughly professional rogue - and she is going to sell a ton of books. She has become her own reality show. (See pictures of the fashion looks of Sarah Palin...