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Winners and Losers in Copenhagen
Who won in Copenhagen? Americans like to keep score and the question is inevitable as the world digests the inconclusive and disappointing outcome of the UN’s climate change summit. The answer depends on what you read. The Washington Post says China is the big winner. The newspaper’s analysis argues that one outcome of the summit…
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NEWS STAND: Tiger Woods Wins and Loses, Racism in China, Quads Admitted to Yale, Grading Obama
Tiger Woods Wins PGA Player Award, Loses Tag Heuer Watch Deal The relentless wave of bad news about Tiger Woods took a brief respite Friday when his fellow professional golfers voted him the player of the year. This was the 10th time in 13 years as a professional that Woods has won the award, a…
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Dedicated Hybrid
For the uninitiated, the 2010 Lexus HS 250h is the world’s first dedicated luxury hybrid. It is not based on another model, like previous Lexus hybrids and, as a result, the car is a rolling technology platform. On my first entry into the vehicle, I noted the sharpness of the interior and the quietness of…
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Green Input, Luxe Output
Rarely do the terms “luxury” and “green” go together as they relate to saving the world’s finite fuel resources. You either want the “goods,” or you don’t. There can be no middle ground. Well, Lexus will dispute those statements and back up its claim that you can go green while going luxe, all in a…
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The Ties That Bind: Copenhagen Climate Accord Targets Global Warming
Well, he didn’t leave Denmark empty-handed. After 14 hours of frenzied followup to two weeks of negotiation geared at creating a substantive plan to confront the threat of global climate change, president Barack Obama announced a comprehensive agreement between some of the world’s major polluters, including the United States, China, India, Brazil and South Africa.…
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The M Word: Talking Marriage and Monogamy in the Time of Tiger Woods
“Monogamy is inherently unnatural in our species,” Dr. Julie Holland says without equivocation. She’s a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, and author of the recent memoir Weekends at Bellevue. Metaphors like being “sex-crazed,” “crazy about you” or even “crazy in love” don’t seem so nutty when you…
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#themonogamydebate
I have 3,800 Twitter followers and asked them if they would discuss issues of relationship and fidelity for publication. I asked these specific four questions: Question 1: Is it really true that being rich, famous, a pro athlete changes the game so that a man MUST be expected to cheat? Question 2: If men at…
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DC Mayor Signs Gay Marriage Bill
Marriage equality in the District has taken a big step forward. From The AP: The mayor of Washington has signed a bill legalizing gay marriage in the nation’s capital, but it won’t go into effect just yet. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty signed the bill Friday in a public ceremony. The city council passed the measure…
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Government to Judge: Cut ACORN's Funding
The Feds aren’t happy with what they think ACORN is doing with their money and have asked a judge to put a kibosh on the dough. From The AP: The government is arguing that a judge should reverse her ruling that its cutoff of ACORN funding was unconstitutional. The government said in papers filed Thursday…