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The “blatantly obvious” monetary incentives for increasing energy efficiency should move the United States toward a more energy frugal future, green energy advocate Amory B. Lovins said in a talk at the Science Center yesterday evening. “We are often given a multiple...
As the financial system has collapsed over the past year, everyone from policymakers to media commentators has fretted about whether or not the crisis would spillover into the broader economy. Yesterday, the fears were confirmed when the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared that the U.S. economy...
5. Conspicuous Consumption Is Safe. It used to be hard to tell rich from poor in Baghdad, especially outside the Green Zone. Fear of being kidnapped for ransom prompted many wealthy Iraqis to feign poverty. Living below one's means became an art form: decrepit cars, cheap cell phones, minimalist...
Spain's negotiator in Marrakech, fisheries official Fernando Curcio, said on Tuesday that "it was important to us to protect the interests of our small fishing fleets." Yet Europe's fisheries official Amilhat says that, inevitably, many fishermen will lose their jobs as fleets shrink in response to reduced catch...
Now that policy, meant to keep addicts off the streets and reduce crime, is in the hands of Swiss voters, who will decide on November 30 whether to approve a narcotics law, passed by parliament earlier this year, that continues HAT after its mandate runs out at the end of...