Word: paybacks
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...from cleaner-burning fuels. A study by University of Minnesota ecologist David Tilman concluded that it will take more than 400 years of biodiesel use to "pay back" the carbon emitted by directly clearing peat lands to grow palm oil; clearing grasslands to grow corn for ethanol has a payback period of 93 years. The result is that biofuels increase demand for crops, which boosts prices, which drives agricultural expansion, which eats forests. Searchinger's study concluded that overall, corn ethanol has a payback period of about 167 years because of the deforestation it triggers...
...dominant media - that is to say the major TV networks and to some extent some of the largest newspapers - played something of a cheerleading role. It's perhaps natural because after 9/11, Americans were hurt. They were angry. They wanted payback. It wasn't so much the reporters' fault. I think it was the editors who determined that their audience wanted to hear a certain kind of story. So I think they were somewhat tone-deaf to the truth early...
Naturally, there's a good measure of international payback here. For source nations, the idea of cultural property is a way to assert their sovereignty against those great powers that once picked through their treasures. It's also a defense against the suction of the present-day free market, which could easily vacuum up whatever the colonial powers haven't carted away. Zahi Hawass is the very vocal head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "While I believe that Egyptian monuments are the shared heritage of mankind," he told TIME by e-mail, "I also believe that...
...dissidents. They keep Burma's cause in the world's media. They engage a new generation of human-rights activists around the globe. But moral support alone cannot triumph in a fight against an immoral regime. Putting the squeeze on the generals' cash is different. That would truly be payback...
...said. “The game with St. Lawrence is very indicative of just how dangerous our offense can be.”CLARKSON 2, HARVARD 1In the Crimson’s season opener against Clarkson on Friday in Potsdam, N.Y., Harvard fell just one goal short of earning payback against the team that bumped the Crimson from the ECAC playoffs last spring. “You don’t forget a loss like that, and it was definitely on our minds,” MacDonald said. “We saw this as an opportunity for payback...