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...slow global warming. Bush plans to spend Earth Day in the Adirondacks, trumpeting policies that don't fit the environmentalists' caricature of him--such as EPA's decision to make General Electric pay almost $500 million to clean up the Hudson River. His defenders argue that environmentalists tend to be a misanthropic lot. "For many people, you can never do enough," EPA boss Christie Whitman told TIME. Indeed, the League of Conservation Voters, which in February gave Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney a grade of D-, gave Bill Clinton and Al Gore a C+ after their first year...
...funny), but what makes it truly superior is the clever, stress-saving bells and whistles that come from millions of geek hours of testing. For example: every morning I scroll through News.com open-ing articles in new browser windows as I go, for later perusal. These windows tend to clutter up my desktop and get in my face. But Mozilla's "tabbed-browsing" feature lets me open those new windows behind the page I'm currently reading; when I'm ready, I just bring them to the front by clicking on neat little manila-folder-style tabs. Bliss. Mozilla also...
...When you’re playing a sport like rugby that people tend to think of as aggressive and male dominated, [keeping the Radcliffe name] gives a sense of the strong female tradition that has been involved,” says Kate Greenthal ’03, president of the club Radcliffe rugby team...
...support, changes in the workplace are already well under way. Barbara Cavuto, who works in one of Italy's relatively few temporary employment agencies, says business has tripled since her company opened in 1998, a year after such operations were legalized. Older people who come in looking for work tend to resent the arrangement. "Most young people accept it though," she says. "They're much more elastic." The unions, largely led by older members, are eventually going to have to battle for the hearts and minds of this elastic youth...
Lagemann and GSE’s two acting deans—Singer and John B. Willett—all stress the need for fundraising at a school where graduates tend to earn less than graduates from other professional schools like the Medical, Law or Business Schools...