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...Narinder Kumar wants to buy an electric steam iron. The 24-year-old dhobi, or washerman, earns his living ironing clothes with a coal-fired iron as his ancestors did, in the same shack in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar district as his father and grandfather before him. It's hard to imagine a workplace with a smaller carbon footprint than Kumar's: At 6 by 4 ft., it consists of only four iron poles holding up a roof made of plywood and corrugated iron. There's one electric fan for the summer days when the heat from the bulky...
...Kumar has heard of global warming, but to him it's incomprehensible that the live coals in his iron are partly to blame for it by producing black carbon, or soot, a greenhouse gas considered more destructive than carbon dioxide. Though he would like to stop using coal - "an electric iron would be so much more convenient," he says - the upgrade is too expensive. But he is saving up for one, and once he does, he will move from using coal to using electricity produced with coal, the source of more than 60% of India's electricity. (See pictures...
...just A Beautiful Mind or Proof either. In Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Kumar wins over his long-lost girlfriend when she's about to marry his arch-rival, by reciting the poem that she had tried to get him to read aloud when they first met (and made out) in a library...
...Such is my reality, a sad irrationality," Kumar continues. "When hark, what is this I see? Another square root of a three comes quietly waltzing by. Together now we multiply to form a number we prefer—rejoicing as an integer...
Some great movies, other than Harold and Kumar, whose clips are showcased include Back to the Future III, Mean Girls, an episode from The Simpsons, The Da Vinci Code, and more Mean Girls. Yes, FlyBy has very high-brow taste...