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...some ways, corporations such as GE are pulling U.S. policy into greener arenas despite the Federal Government's recalcitrance. For instance, Senate proposals to cap CO2 emissions--opposed by congressional Republicans and President Bush--failed to make it into the energy bill. The Senate bill does require utilities to generate 10% of electricity from renewable fuels like wind or solar by 2020, but Bush wants more emphasis on tax breaks for oil and gas production. Immelt is one of a growing number of chief executives, including the heads of major utilities, who think carbon caps are both inevitable...
Defection sounds like a bad word, but in reality the runners may still be patriotic as ever. They just moved on to greener pastures. When the commonwealth gold medalist, Stephen Cherono, moved to Qatar, there was uproar in Kenya, especially when he, as Saif Saeed Shaheen, went on to beat his former teammates at the Paris athletics championships. More recently, Bernard Lagat became a U.S. citizen, again amid further protest. Now, many wonder whether these athletes should be allowed to compete for their new host nations...
When the more experienced reporters of the Times's 120-person Orange County staff compete head-to-head with the greener troops of the Register, the Times stories are usually better written and more analytical. Yet the Times cannot match the Register's coverage of virtually everything in Orange County that moves, talks or flashes bright colors. Anderson, a fiend for market studies, responded to reader surveys this fall by expanding the business pages and adding entertainment and fashion sections. "The Los Angeles Times has excellent foreign and national coverage, but its weakness is in local coverage," says Anderson. Observes...
...remained; some 18,000 nurses departed, too. The situation is now even worse. "It's no longer just a brain drain; it's much broader," says human-rights lawyer Daniel Molokele, who left Bulawayo for Johannesburg two years ago. "This is not just a question of leaving for greener pastures. This is a direct result of the lack of confidence in the future of Zimbabwe...
...Especially Currier, but also in Pfoho and Cabot, you don’t have the feeling of stand alone entryways. There’s an incredible social feeling in the Quad.” And quadlings aren’t the only ones who think the grass is greener on Linnaean street. Virginia C. Fritsch ’07, a Quincy resident, told me “[she] would love to live in the Quad,” citing “a sense of community here” which is lacking in the River Houses. She also noted that...