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Making ambitious pledges is easy--that is what five-year plans are for--but finding the will and the funds to make them stick is trickier. One source of funding is the Clean Development Mechanism, a part of the Kyoto Protocol that allows developed countries to sponsor greenhouse-cutting projects in developing countries in exchange for carbon credits that can be used for meeting emissions targets. Those projects don't require any technological breakthroughs. A 2003 study by the consulting firm CRA International found that if China and India invested fully in technology already...
...reserves built up in childhood? Schofield agrees: "We've got it down to two dimensions because of where this study's gone." But research, he says, will reveal "more environmental dimensions, more genes at play, and potentially there'll be interplay between genes." The riddle of depression is looking trickier than ever...
HALLUCINOGENS Things are trickier when it comes to LSD and its hallucinogenic kin, but reports suggest that most '60s trips ended relatively benignly. The most rigorous studies of hallucinogens have been conducted not on boomers, who used the drugs intermittently and furtively, but on Native American populations for whom consumption of the hallucinogen peyote is part of their cultural and religious fabric. In November researchers from the McLean psychiatric hospital outside Boston released a five-year study that found no cognitive or psychological problems among Native American regular users, some of whom even performed better on psychological tests than those...
...list—the picture isn’t quite so bright. Though the Crimson has won big against out-of-conference squads—North Dakota, New Hampshire, and Boston College were all top-10 when Harvard felled them—the in-conference play has proven trickier.“In our league, anyone can play with anyone,” Hafner said. “It’s just a matter of the effort and the work put in.”RPI 3, HARVARD 2TROY, N.Y.—Down 3-0 in the third...
...then there are the keyloggers, which are designed to record your keystrokes as you type, potentially collecting your bank account passwords and credit card numbers and transmitting them back to a central server. "The amount of spyware out there has grown significantly, and it's gotten more malicious, and trickier to stop," says Forrester analyst Natalie Lambert...