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Narinder Kumar wants to buy an electric steam iron. The 24-year-old dhobi, or washerman, earns his living ironing clothes with a coal-fired iron as his ancestors did, in the same shack in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar district as his father and grandfather before him. It's hard to imagine a workplace with a smaller carbon footprint than Kumar's: At 6 by 4 ft., it consists of only four iron poles holding up a roof made of plywood and corrugated iron. There's one electric fan for the summer days when the heat from the bulky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind India's Intransigence on Climate-Change Talks | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...Planning Committee on Women's Education was set up by Brewster to study plans for co-ed housing. The committee consists of Mrs. Elga Washerman, assistant dean of Yale Graduate School, Henry Chauncey, special assistant to the president, two professors and two students not yet named...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overwhelming Eli Student Majority Approves Brewster's Coed Program | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

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