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...narrowly passed the American Clean Energy Security Act, which creates a “cap and trade” system to establish an economic disincentive for carbon emission by requiring polluters to pay a fine to the government or to other smaller polluters should they pass a certain emissions benchmark. As soon as the votes were finished being counted in the House, conventional wisdom declared the bill dead in the Senate, where it faces overwhelming opposition by Republicans and considerable opposition by Democrats hailing from coal-producing states. Among the latter is Montana Senator Max Baucus, who said...
...True to his family's aristocratic roots, the suave, permatanned Villepin is famous for writing poetry and studies of Napoleon. Despite winning praise as Foreign Affairs and then Interior Minister, when he was Prime Minister Villepin's arrogance turned off both politicians and the public. (Read: "The 100-Day Benchmark: It All Started with Napoleon...
...knew that Princeton was going to be very fast after Head of the Charles,” Eiermann said. “We knew that [how Harvard stacked up against the Tigers] would be the benchmark to really measure how we would...
...crowded house welcomed Cortese as he opened the concert with Hector Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival,” the same overture that James Levine selected to jumpstart the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) current season. The formidable musical benchmark the BSO set just last month, however, hardly deterred the best of Harvard’s instrumentalists from delivering a comparable rendition...
...concentrations of 30 outdoor samples that were collected by Harvard range from undetectable levels to 3.29 mg/kg, according to University spokesman Joshua D. Poupore. Three of these samples exceeded the Mass. Department of Environmental Protection soil screening level of 2 mg/kg—a benchmark that, if exceeded, requires more testing. The EPA recommends additional screening for levels above 1 mg/kg...