| The Constitution and the Cross The Supreme Court should rule that a large cross that has been placed on federal land in California violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment. nytimes.com |
24 Sites Cut From City Plan for 290 Parks Shrinking funds have led New York to scrap two dozen of the new play areas Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg pledged that the city would open by 2030. nytimes.com |
Who Is to Blame for Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions? [More] rss.sciam.com |
Spare Times A selected guide to exhibitions, discussions, recreation and other special events in New York. nytimes.com |
Epiphany from up high: Can a suburban family live sustainably? There we were, racing through the stratosphere on a short flight home from Baltimore to Atlanta (577 miles and approximately 230 lbs of carbon dioxide per person). My husband, Mike, was tuned to his iPod, and me to my book, " How, Flat and Crowded 2.0 " when a sentence in the section on oil and geopolitics struck me: "The question for you Americans is when will prices [of oil] go down?"Friedman was examining what he calls the "First Law of Petropolitics," the inverse relationship between crude oil prices and political reform in countries where oil provides much of the GDP and that have highly repressive or unreliable governments. Countries like the Russian Federation, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Angola. [More] rss.sciam.com |