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The sheer ubiquity of carbon is what makes eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions so difficult. But the surprising truth, Roston writes, is that we have actually been decarbonizing over time. Humanity's main fuel for eons was wood, which has a carbon-to-hydrogen ratio of 10 to 1 when burned...
The broadcast quality of cell-phone video on these sites is still imperfect - it's often grainy, occasionally blurry and nearly always a step below video-camera clarity. Sometimes videos freeze and audio is muffled. For those committed to higher-quality images, Eye-Fi sells a wi-fi-enabled SD...
As Moreno-Ocampo tells it, his pursuit of al-Bashir over the past three years has come in the face of diplomatic obstruction and political accommodation. It was, in his eyes, predictable that the Sudanese would withhold visas, deny access to crime scenes and establish bogus trials in an effort...
Gathered last week in four Atlanta auditoriums linked by closed-circuit television, 40,462 ''messengers'' to the annual Southern Baptist Convention clapped their hands and sang, ''Give me that old-time religion; it's good enough for me.'' That is just what they got moments later, when it was announced...
Let's begin by stipulating that Irish coffee is brilliant: no sensible person can argue with caffeine and whiskey topped with cream and served in a warm mug. Irish coffee has been sold in bars since the 1950s, if not earlier, so it's surprising that it took so long...