Published: Feb 23, 2012
BRUSSELS — During the past decade, the European Union blazed a green trail with a series of laws mandating a low-carbon economy and promises to set an example for other parts of the world. That now seems like another era. A succession of economic crises has pushed European governments to pare subsidies to clean-energy sectors like solar power
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
LONDON — With her famously gray hair piled up into a bagel of a hairdo, the model Kristen McMenamy stood in her white tulle dress on a carpet of autumnal leaves. Then she stepped into a forest of trees, approaching a fairy tale cottage that — with a Flash! Bang! Wallop! — turned into a discotheque. Nothing highlighted more the new
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
Shabazz Napier swished a 29-footer with six-tenths of a second left in overtime, and Jeremy Lamb scored a career-high 32 points to help visiting Connecticut stun Villanova, 73-70, on Monday. Napier, who questioned his teammates’ heart after a loss Saturday at Marquette, kept the defending national champion Huskies’ tournament hopes
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
IN the 15 years since Toyota introduced the Prius hybrid in Japan, the public’s understanding of how these automotive wonders work their magic has generally ranked right alongside its comprehension of DNA sequencing. Sure, drivers grasp that hybrids — essentially cars powered by gas with a side order of electricity — can squeeze
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
AS plans for the Keystone XL pipeline faltered over the last six months, its route through a pristine aquifer in Nebraska proved to be its fatal political flaw. Environmental groups had raised numerous other serious objections: Building the pipeline would lead to a rise in climate changing gases; its environmental review was tainted by conflicts of
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
In a little brick-walled taverna in Athens, over a lunch of Cretan salad and stuffed grape leaves, a Greek journalist named Aris Hadjigeorgiou was holding forth one day in late November about the calamitous state of his city and country as only a veteran metropolitan reporter could. He explicated the insidious ways in which the upper echelons of
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
EACH year, it seems, a new book emerges to capitalize on the parental insecurities of Americans. Last year it was Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.” This time it’s Pamela Druckerman’s “Bringing Up Bébé.” But rather than trying to emulate the strict discipline supposedly instilled by
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Each November, a papermaker named Timothy Barrett gathers a group of friends and students on the grounds of the University of Iowa Research Park, a onetime tuberculosis sanitarium in Coralville, Iowa, for what he bills as a harvest event. Armed with hook-shaped knives, Barrett and his party hack away at a grove of bare, shrublike trees called kozo
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — After a nap Wednesday, Vaughn Taylor felt wrung out rather than rejuvenated. “I woke up really depressed,” he said. Blame not a bad dream but a nightmarish start to his 2012 season. After three events, Taylor, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour, had not made a cut despite shooting in the 60s in three of
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Published: Feb 17, 2012
In a powerful rebuke to Syria ’s government, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to approve a resolution that condemned President Bashar al-Assad ’s unbridled crackdown on an 11-month-old uprising and called for his resignation under an Arab League peace proposal to resolve the conflict. The 137-12 vote,
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