Word: weaning
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...Park Lane in their Lamborghinis, and Johnson is right that affluent households may just add a brace of low-emissions cars to their private transport options. A small increase in traffic as people take advantage of the exemption is unlikely to worry the Mayor, whose main aim is to wean people off private cars and onto buses, tubes and bikes. He says the scheme will be monitored and the exemption repealed if "hordes of people with a malignant turn of mind rush out to buy [low-emissions] cars just to annoy me." If he gets his third term...
...intriguing but small study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital and New York Presbyterian Hospital may have finally come up with an end run around organ rejection. They report on four kidney-transplant patients who were able to wean themselves off powerful antirejection drugs within a year of their transplants (a fifth rejected his kidney). Even more exciting is the fact that while the organ donors in the study were family members of the recipients, they were not perfect tissue matches...
...climate change advisory committee for the state, initiated by Schweitzer, delivered its first report, issuing 54 recommendations that would reduce Montana's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, including renewable energy incentives and reforestation. The Western state is also investing in biofuels and wind power, looking to wean itself off of the coal plants that produce most of its electricity. "We recognize that there is climate change happening," says Schweitzer, who was the first governor in the U.S. to sign the 25 x '25 initiative, which aims to have 25% of the country's energy produced from renewable...
...delicate enterprise, complicated by meteorological challenges and the ungainliness of a plane this big and light. Even Piccard doesn't envision solar planes replacing today's airliners anytime soon, but that's not the point. To reduce emissions, he believes, aviation will eventually need to wean itself from fossil fuels. "To make reasonable use of any alternative," he says, "we have to become lighter and more aerodynamic to reduce consumption." Solar Impulse promises to generate an array of futuristic insights - and some old-fashioned thrills along...
...election-year farm bill didn't wean farmers off subsidies either; it was the most profligate yet. It created new "countercyclical payments" for bad times, while extending transitional payments for all times, renaming them "direct payments" so no one had to keep pretending they were temporary. Texas Republican Larry Combest--then chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, now another agribusiness lobbyist--threatened to block legislation enhancing Bush's power to negotiate trade deals if he didn't sign the farm bill. Bush signed...