Published: Feb 23, 2012
IF the health properties of a glass of milk are not enough to make consumers drink up, maybe a breakfast date with the actress Salma Hayek will do the trick. On Friday, the Milk Processor Education Program, a dairy industry group, will announce the latest version of the National Milk Mustache “got milk” campaign. The initiative, called
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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 23, 2012
HARBORSIDE, Me. IT was early February, when the 10-hour day returns here on the 44th parallel, and Barbara Damrosch could see it in the brighter green leaves of her tatsoi and spinach growing in the unheated greenhouse attached to the house she shares with her husband, Eliot Coleman, at Four Season Farm. Mr. Coleman, 73, began farming here on Cape
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
To the Editor: The Havana Journal about Cuba’s real estate boom (“ Cuba Unleashes the Pent-Up Energy of Real Estate Dreams ,” Feb. 16) did not mention perhaps the most important cause of our neighboring country’s dilapidated housing stock: the scarcity and inflated prices of building materials caused by the United
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
The Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 13,000 barrier on Tuesday, a level not seen since before the financial crisis in 2008. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, which measures the broader market, also approached a significant threshold on Tuesday. For part of the day it was trading above its three-year closing high of
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Published: Feb 22, 2012
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Word that NATO personnel had burned an undisclosed number of Korans and were preparing to dispose of many more by incineration set off an angry protest here on Tuesday. NATO officials rushed to apologize publicly and profusely, trying to head off what they feared could be a nationwide outburst of violence as news of the
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
You only get one chance to make a first impression, so put on a good face. Impassioned watch collectors will look behind appearances to appreciate the experimental use of new materials in a caliber, or the originality and complexity of its multiple functions. But luxury watch brands, their marketers and designers know that it is first and foremost
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
GENEVA — M.C. Escher, the Dutch graphic artist whose mind-bending prints straddle the boundaries between art and science, once observed that he felt “more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.” Historically, most watchmakers would have felt the same way. Horology for centuries has prized the science of
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
LONDON — Pinstripes with an edge of cool, surfaces smooth and metallic, and fashion show locations in a high rise building in London’s financial district — could it be that city slick is making a comeback? The London equivalent of Occupy Wall Street may have seen its tents dismantled. But in other ways, young fashion designers,
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Published: Feb 21, 2012
Coffee lovers around the world can rejoice: The piles of grounds they discard could help rid the world of the toxic smell of sewage. Writing in The Journal of Hazardous Materials, researchers at the City University of New York report that coffee grounds can absorb hydrogen sulfide gas , a big part of what makes sewage smell so terrible. Today,
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