Manhattan Businessman Richard Perl, 29, has a morning ritual. After dressing, he drops a small crystal into his pocket to enhance his concentration and aid + him in contract negotiations during his workday.
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Eat Your Greens
If you really want to go green, the conventional thinking goes, buy a hybrid.
Raw Milk Straight from the Cow
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How "Fresh" Is Air Freshener?
Watch enough TV commercials, and you get the sense that Americans are obsessed with air freshener. Trigger-happy women routinely rush around the house armed with cans of the stuff, gleefully spraying running shoes, embarrassed dogs and cigar-smoke-laden furniture; whole families, it seems, are intoxicated by the fresh scent of Summer Breeze or Berry Burst
How Safe Are We?: How We Got Homeland Security Wrong
When researcher Karen Clark developed the first probability-based model for measuring the threat of natural disasters in the U.S. in 1987, almost no one cared.
Sustainable Forests: Bolivia’s Pioneer Indigenous Plan
Deep in the Chiquitana tropical dry forest in southeast Bolivia, Noine Picanerai stands on a dirt road that cuts through lush woods. The 50,000-acre plot looks like a protected reserve
Palin’s Pipeline to Nowhere?
In 2001, a burly anchorage longshoreman named Scott Heyworth turned up in the nearby town of Wasilla for a meeting with its mayor, Sarah Palin. Heyworth, a local Democratic activist, had grown tired of waiting for the Big Three oil companies to tap their huge natural-gas reserves in the state’s North Slope, the long swatch of northern Alaska tundra that includes the largest oil and gas fields in North America
Water Near Shale-Gas Fracking Sites Polluted, a Study Says
When I traveled through northeastern Pennsylvania in March for my TIME cover story on shale natural gas, it wasn’t hard to find unhappy homeowners like Sherry Vargason.
Who Can’t Stop the Rain: Colombia’s Very, Very Wet 11 Months
In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a five-year-long downpour imprisons people in their homes, washes away the banana plantation and reduces the town of Macondo to ruins. But the deluge dreamed up by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garca Mrquez in his magical-realist masterpiece pales compared to the real-life flooding of his homeland now.
The Science of Wildfires
HOW THEY START… Wildfires result from a confluence of fuel, dryness and some kind of trigger.