| Put a price on carbon emissions: Suzuki
Canada needs a massive scale-up of effort in fighting climate change, and that has to start with a strong carbon price," said Matthew Bramley of the Pembina Institute. "It also requires major new investments in energy efficiency and low-impact renewable energy. Right now, Canada is at the back of the class, and that has to change." .
Genzyme comes up with cure
Genzyme Corp., one of the state's largest biotech companies, said it has resolved a sticky problem with Framingham's sewage system, allowing the Cambridge company to go ahead with plans to build a $260 million drug manufacturing plant there. The biotech warned late last year that it might be forced to build the plant in another town or state, because Framingham's aging sewage and water system would not be able to handle the added load from Genzyme's facility without a $12.9 million upgrade. Though Framingham and Massachusetts officials both promised to work to secure state funding for the project, company executives said they couldn't afford to wait much longer for the state to make a commitment. And even if the funding eventually came through, Genzyme managers fretted the sewage project wouldn't be finished by the time the manufacturing plant was ready to open in 2010, prompting them to begin considering alternative sites.
Diluting the pain of arsenic poisoning in Nepal
As part of the launch of Progress for Children No. 5: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation, UNICEF is featuring a series of stories focused on achieving the 2015 targets set by Millennium Development Goal 7 to halve the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. NAWALPARASI, Nepal, 20 September 2006 Twelve years ago, Harilal Gupta was thrilled to finally have a tube well dug at his doorstep. Little did he know that the well water was contaminated with arsenic. The symptoms started with nausea and weakness, said Mr. Gupta, a resident of Thulo Kunwar village in Nawalparasi District. In time, my skin hardened and small nail-like warts emerged on my palms, and soon I developed tumours, too. It turned out that the water in his village had an arsenic level well above accepted limits, the highest reported level in Nepal.
COLUMN: Concealed handguns on college campus unacceptable
If you are carrying a concealed weapon, you don't just throw it in your belt and call it done. Why? Because it is highly unsafe and down right stupid. Have you ever even held a gun? The safety isn't some magical thing, it's not some dial that you have to turn so many times in each direction. It's a button, you push it and it's off. That easy. If somebody has made up their mind that they are going to conceal a weapon, they pass the class, and are actually carrying one. They don't need to think about the moral implications of killing another human being. They have already decided that if it came down to it, they are willing to pull the trigger. To be honest, pulling the trigger would be the easiest part in the entire process. It would be much more difficult for me to actually decide if it is right and lawful enough for me to use my weapon against another human being.
The Polaroid lets you create instant art
Tampa's [5]art collective's Polaroid exhibit runs through Feb. 29 at the West Tampa Center for the Arts, 1906 N Armenia Ave., Suite 211. Gallery hours by appointment. (813) 340-9056; www.five-art.com --- What is it about the old-fashioned Polaroid camera that holds such sway in this megapixel age? It's a decidedly lo-fi tool of the photographic trade, a kitschy relic of the Ford-era photo album. If you were born between 1970 and 1980, there's a decent chance your first photograph was taken on Polaroid film. Sadly, the days of the Polaroid instant photo are winding to a close. Polaroid announced last week it would stop making instant film, and expects to run out of stock completely by 2009. The company will now focus on digital cameras, printers and televisions.
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