Word: jointing
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...this critical leadership at the Conference of the Parties taking place right now in The Hague, Netherlands. The purpose of this two-week meeting is to establish the rules for implementing the three mechanisms defined by the Kyoto Protocol to help industrialized nations meet their reduction targets: emissions trading, joint implementation and the clean development mechanism. First of all, an emissions trading regime will allow industrialized countries to pool their efforts, buying and selling emissions credits amongst themselves. Secondly, joint implementation projects will recognize efforts to finance emission-reduction projects in other industrialized countries. Lastly, a clean development mechanism will...
...plug quarter after quarter into pinball machines. As a teenager attempting to evade Mom and Dad's sometimes overbearing attention, I'd bike to the local arcade and slam the same games. Even into my 30s, whenever I'd visit my folks, I'd drive to a nearby juke joint and shoot a few pins for old times' sake. But when I became an orphan this year at age 42, I also became an adult. I stopped playing pinball for good...
...sales of $13.7 billion and profits of $480 million. Its empire stretches from John Grisham's novels (Random House) to Whitney Houston's hit tunes (BMG), and from Family Circle magazine to Germany's most prominent publications, like the provocative newsweekly Stern (both owned by Gruner + Jahr). Through a joint venture with British media giant Pearson PLC in the RTL Group, the company owns syndication rights to a vast universe of television programs, including Baywatch and The Price Is Right. And Bertelsmann also does a multibillion-dollar global business in printing and publishing services; the magazine in your hand...
...most prolific planet-hunting team, began his research at the relatively modest 3.5-m telescope at Lick Observatory in California. Then, in 1996, he moved most of his project to the Keck, with dramatic results. "We've discovered 35 planets orbiting sunlike stars so far," says Marcy, who holds joint appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. "And the majority of them have been with the Keck...
Finally, women can protect their knees by improving their balance. This can be done by building up the muscles surrounding the knees. These muscles serve as shock absorbers, reducing the force that eventually gets transferred to the ACL and protecting against excessive rotation at the knee joint. Working on balance boards for as little as 20 minutes a day over a period of six weeks can improve coordination of the hamstrings and the gastrocnemius muscles in the calves, protecting the ACL during athletic twists and turns. Training properly and developing physical conditioning will not only help level the playing field...