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...team found that the shrinkage occurred 120 to 140 million years before birds first branched off the evolutionary tree...
Turns out the barbarians at the gate--Henry Kravis of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and David Bonderman of Texas Pacific Group (TPG)--have a little tree hugger in them. Even before the deal with TXU was sealed, the buyout shops called up environmentalists and, in a 17-hr. meeting at San Francisco's Mandarin Oriental Hotel, agreed to roll back carbon emissions from all TXU power plants to 1990 levels by 2020. Four days later, the company's board accepted the buyout offer, agreeing to drop controversial plans for eight of 11 new coal-fired power plants and to support...
...remember from geography lessons, rubber is big in Malaysia. But there's a better way to appreciate it besides attending museums and tree-tapping demonstrations, and that's the Malaysian Grand Prix. Scheduled for April 8 at Kuala Lumpur's hyper-modern Sepang Circuit, the tire-scorching event is the second competition in this year's World Formula One Championship, which makes it all the more intriguing. If the much-vaunted first race in Melbourne on March 18 is where the kinks are discovered, then it's in the second race that the real drama begins to unfold. Will world...
...anything is to be conspicuous in this new austere era, let it be the ethics behind a product. Jolie, in her everyday life, is spotted carrying Whole Foods bags as often as a Louis Vuitton bag. Cameron Diaz and Leonardo DiCaprio drive Priuses. Labels like People Tree, Edun and Rogan are favored by the likes of Sienna Miller. And the hip British chain Topshop has appointed its first buyer to source ethically made clothing. As Salzman and Matathia point out, "Shopping with a conscience is now cool...
...aspect of the packaging has a secondary use, from the glass bottles to the 100% postconsumer-waste boxes that are folded using origami to avoid glue: thousands of seeds are incorporated into each box so they may be planted to grow Genovese basil, amaranth flowers or a sea buckthorn tree. "It comes down to one word, respect," Onysko says. "For the earth, your employers, farmers and for yourself, not burning yourself out. If you think about things that way, it's amazing how your life starts changing...