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...holds great promise. But it will take decades for clean-energy technologies to be distributed on a global scale. In the meantime, the global population will increase by 3 billion, the demand for higher standards of living will not abate, and carbon dioxide will be emitted at an increasing pace. Even if we were to stop all carbon emissions tomorrow, the world will still continue to warm up for at least another 30 years...
...enroll in classes with such complex terminology is truly a testament to how exceptional the services are at Harvard,” said Powers in an e-mailed statement. The greatest challenge for interpreters, according to Kellie L. Stewart, one of Powers’s interpreters, is the pace of the person speaking. Interpreters run into trouble with people who speak softly or very quickly, explained Stewart in an e-mailed statement. In addition to interpreters, some deaf students use a captioning system, in which they can watch the words spoken in class on their laptop...
...caravan is growing but our driver's list isn't keeping pace and the bus doesn't get here until the 18th," Sarah Huckabee is musing out loud when a young staffer pipes up that he's bringing along a new volunteer from Arkansas named Jared. Huckabee pounces. "Oooh, I need him! Do you know him? What's his last name? Jared's our ticket. I just hope he's old enough to drive...
...imploring people to conserve—by turning off their lights, turning down the heat, and walking to work—won’t do the trick anytime soon. Climate change is a gradual process, although it will definitely yield extreme results over the long run. The slow pace of change means that most people cannot grasp the urgency of the problem. It will take more than the pleas from rich, “enlightened” environmentalists to frighten average Americans to trade in their SUVs for a Prius. Change won’t come from a government...
...Then again, it is far too hot outside at this time of year to lie about in the sun, and the delegates are all too aware that if they fail, here, to launch a viable road map to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, humanity may fall fatally behind the accelerating pace of climate change...