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A Scourge for Coal Miners Stages a Brutal Comeback
2014-11-11 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In August, when former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited West Virginia to campaign for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Shelley Moore Capito, the Democrat in the race was quick to remind voters what Romney had said a decade earlier about the coal industry. I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant that plant kills people, Romney had said in 2003, standing outside a Massachusetts coal-fired power plant that was facing new environmental controls. The Democratic...
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How Marvel Became the Envy (and Scourge) of Hollywood
2014-07-24 08:59:31| Toys - Topix.net
Ike Perlmutter has become one of the town's most feared moguls. Now, as "Guardians of the Galaxy" takes the $6 billion-grossing brand in a new and risky direction, insiders open up about the never-seen executive's ironfisted style and the underside of a superhero empire.
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Air pollution scourge underestimated, green energy can help: U.N.
2013-04-10 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. Investments in solar, wind or hydropower would benefit both human health and a drive by almost 200 nations to slow climate change, blamed mainly on a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from use of fossil fuels, they said. "Air pollution is causing more deaths than HIV or malaria combined," Kandeh...
Perl: Jewel in the Rough or Scourge of IT?
2013-03-28 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
It seems scarcely a day can go by without someone declaring some technology or another "dead." Take the netbook, for example. People have been saying for years it's dead; today, however, we have the Chromebook phenomenon. The command line is another popular target, of course, but few can compete with the Linux desktop itself, the death of which has been trumpeted so many times now that Linux Girl has lost count.
Davos divided on tackling the scourge of obesity
2013-01-24 14:03:02| Beverages - Topix.net
Leaders of the world's largest banks have gone some way to persuading investors that their industry's near-death experience is over.
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