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...Kite Runner begins and ends in contemporary America, and the story it tells is firmly set against the history of modern Afghanistan, from a point just before the Soviet invasion of that unhappy land to the moment after the Taliban imposed its hateful fundamentalism on the country. Yet the movie version of Khaled Hosseini's best selling novel doesn't feel like it has been, as people used to say, "ripped from headlines." It instead has about it something of the air of a big, rich, very old-fashioned novel, telling the far-ranging story of two boys...
...impossible. There are also concerns about "leakage," the possibility that if one paid for a project to save trees in one area, logging would simply move to another, unprotected forest - and the saved CO2 would leak. But new space imaging, much of it done by the Japanese Land Observing Satellite (ALOS), can collect precise data on the rate and type of deforestation, even through clouds - pretty important, given that the Amazon alone recycles trillions of tons of moisture every year. And leakage can be avoided by assigning countrywide baselines for deforestation - a kind of emissions cap for forestry - so that...
...cash in on forest conservation could end up hurting the indigenous people - whether the rubber tappers of Brazil or the forest dwellers of Aceh - that it should benefit most. After all, history has not been good to native people in the developing world who dwell on suddenly valuable land. The key will be to manage avoided deforestation projects properly, to make sure they are truly win-win. "The value of a forest is not only carbon sequestration, but biodiversity, and the lives of those in the forests themselves," says Manuel Silva de Cunha, president of the National Council of Rubber...
...prefer the term ‘global weirding,’ coined by Hunter Lovins.” Sure, he did write some of his own, but they were sub-par, to say the least. “People don’t give up land for peace in a deal that comes over the fax,” he wrote on Aug. 19. Hey, I’ll tell you what’s faxed-in: Your metaphors, hombre. (2) Crazed hallucinations! There were some nutso columns this year. On July 8, he had an extended fantasy about something...
...contract—it won’t be long before this boy band puts their dancing shoes back on and hits the road again. Our only hope is that JT is too busy wishing bad karma on ex-girlfriends and bringing sexy back. 4. “The Land Before Time” “The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends” came out less than a month ago. But with the original adventure of Little Foot, Ducky, and the rest of the gang hitting their 20-year anniversary in 2008, it seems almost...