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...deforestation is estimated to account for up to 20% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The amount of carbon stored in tropical forests is staggering - Brazil alone has nearly 50 billion tons - and its loss would ensure dramatic climate change. Scientists estimate that without a change in business as usual, more than half of the Amazon forest would be logged by 2030, releasing 20.5 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere...
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino declared yesterday to be a “snow emergency,” and 300 local schools closed earlier than usual...
...Chinese diaspora, its schematic nature prevents it from being fully realized. The Wus go from sleeping on the linoleum bathroom floor in a slummy, cockroach-infested apartment to full ownership of a lakeside home with a backyard in less than five years; they're forced to deal with the usual petty racism; Taotao's Mandarin, to the dismay of his parents, quickly degenerates, as does his filial piety; the Wus are barraged by a snooty Chinese emigrant community that brays endlessly about our protagonists' lack of national pride, harassing them for large donations to Chinese flood victims; and the Dalai...
...after seven years of outrageous mismanagement by the grossly incompetent incumbent [Dec. 10]. In my native land, the pessimists said Corazon Aquino and her lack of experience didn't stand a chance against President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. History proved them wrong. A unifying figure like Aquino, without the usual political baggage that accompanies experience, was what the Philippines needed at the time. Obama presents himself as a figure whose crossover appeal can help bridge the gap between those in the blue and the red states. He is a much needed breath of fresh air in the musty corridors...
...usual day, Woo takes the train from work back to Charlestown, where she picks up her daughter. The pair drives home...