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...government to manage the financial crisis was just 4.5 in Britain, similar to the level in France but higher than that of Germany. In the U.S., where citizens were polled only days after President Obama's election, confidence was higher, at 6.3. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...Rollins, and he took questions from the audience after his speech. When asked whether he has ever doubted his faith, the Dalai Lama replied with a quick “No,” eliciting laughter from the audience. Following the talk, the Dalai Lama proceeded outside for a tree-planting ceremony, where he planted a special hybrid birch tree, created from Eastern and Western birch tree strains by Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum. University President Drew G. Faust also presented him with a commemorative picture to honor his visit. “It’s interesting...
...while “Advanced Paper DISPLAY” ran across the screen and the Kindle displayed a grayscale picture of a woman who didn’t look quite human. After millions of dollars and years of research, the Kindle is an almost-believable approximation of tree pulp. Of course, one of the immediate implications of something like the Kindle is that it is comparatively tree-friendlier than books. You might even be able to consider the Kindle as Green Technology—if you ignore the environmental costs of manufacturing it as well as the quality of life...
...dancing Christmas tree. I danced the entire route. I wasn’t even on a float, so I had to travel,” she says...
...does the right selection. Most reissues are by acts with rabid fan bases (U2 put out a souped-up version of The Joshua Tree last year; Bruce Springsteen recently announced plans for a new Darkness on the Edge of Town) that have both cash and nostalgia in abundance. Rap? Not many reissues. The Grateful Dead? Too many to count. Older bands fare better for technological reasons; advances in transferring music from analog to digital mean that most records from the '70s and '80s sound demonstrably better, even to amateur ears. "That's a big selling point," says Adam Yauch...