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...with global warming, Rogers vows to keep the heat on his colleagues in the energy industry and on Washington politicians. "My greatest fear is that we don't deal with the problem now," he says, "and we wake up one day and don't have enough time." --By D.F. Reported by David Thigpen/Cincinnati
...fires set in Vail, Colo., by protesters from Earth Liberation Front were an environmental wake-up call for the ski industry, Auden Schendler, 35, is a triple shot of espresso. Hired the next year by Aspen Skiing Co. (ASC), he has become the most visible of a crop of experts charged with cleaning up the industry's act. Between keeping the lodges toasty and draining the creeks for snowmaking, downhill-skiing companies in the late 1990s were major consumers of natural resources. And ASC, which now operates four mountains, two hotels and 12 restaurants in the Aspen-Snowmass area...
...Hansen: Not a sea change, but they are beginning to wake up, and this coincides with the science becoming a lot clearer in the past five or six years...
Since its advent in 1995 in the wake of housing randomization, blocking has occupied a major slice of the scramble of freshmen year at Harvard. Some tight cliques form blocking groups in September, while other groups are a mish-mash of frightened freshmen who come together at the last moment in order to avoid lonely floater-status...
...curb and restrict its emergence as a major geopolitical power commensurate with its ever-growing economic clout. Chinese officials don't have to look far for evidence, as hawkish elements in Washington haven't been hiding their view of China as an emerging threat. Last January, in the wake of the tsunami, the Bush administration initially moved to circumvent the U.N. to deliver aid by instead partnering with Japan, Australia and India. More recently, Secretary Rice's comments in Australia that "all of us in the region, particularly those of us who are longstanding allies, have a joint responsibility...