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Boehlert himself has long fought the environmental fight, but if the best that can be said for most lawmakers is that they are finally recognizing the global-warming problem, there's reason to wonder whether they will have the courage to reverse it. Increasingly, state and local governments are filling the void. The mayors of more than 200 cities have signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, pledging, among other things, that they will meet the Kyoto goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions in their cities to 1990 levels by 2012. Nine eastern states have established the Regional Greenhouse...
...high-tech system that automatically dims or raises the lights depending on whether it's sunny or overcast. Brent Allen, who manages the experimental store, says customers tell him all the time that "they drove out of their way to shop at this Wal-Mart." Which makes you wonder: If folks drive farther than they have to, aren't they burning extra gasoline in their pickups and SUVS? And isn't that offsetting the store's energy savings...
...just wonder what exactly the purpose is in having literature majors learn (or pretend to learn, or re-learn) how to do stoichiometry or memorize the exact chemical makeup of the stratosphere. Apart from an increased ability to memorize (or fake it), what do history students gain from memorizing dozens of equations only to forget everything a day later, or, as a friend put it, “copying problem sets and barely passing the final...
...It’s hard to avoid tracing the similarities, though, and despite what Viswanathan has said, one must wonder, is Opal actually self-referential—a sort of “Mehta”-fiction? Where does its plot end and Viswanathan’s real life begin...
...sang innocent love songs as they leaped and danced across the stage. “In the older groups, you see more standing and singing, there’s nothing remarkable like tap dancing,” says Ken S. Williams ’78. “I wonder if there’s a whole new set of qualifications.” But a capella fans shouldn’t be fooled by the Kroks’ new tricks. Music Director Thomas K. B. Wionzek ’08 says that the Kroks “observe...