BERLIN (AP) — Officials from the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced Friday that they will aim to largely end greenhouse gas emissions from their power sectors by 2035, making it highly unlikely that those countries will burn coal for electricity beyond that date.
It’s our responsibility. After asking the question, I immediately regretted it.
Frank Wilczek has a special fondness for rainbows. It’s not just the show-stopping, full-arcacross-the-sky rainbows that catch the Nobel laureate’s eye.
In the spirit of education, and graduation, I’ve been reading a small part of part of my mother’s journal. I’d like to share some of her words about her schooling, where she attended and her own graduation.
‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’ 3 stars (out of 4) MPAA rating: PG-13 (for sequences of intense action and some strong language) Running time: 2:17 How to watch: In theaters It couldn’t outmaneuver the pandemic enemy that delayed its release for two years, but “Top Gun: Maverick” can’t lose, really. It’s a pretty good time, and often a pretty good movie for the nervous blur we’re in right now.
We are all being made much more aware of how we have to exercise our brains to keep them in shape for the long term. Many people do puzzles like crosswords and sudoku, but I have a suggestion for another means of brain building that will make your life better as well as the lives of others.
As an American, I find the idea of bowing (or curtseying) to someone abhorrent. And yet, after reading Tina Brown’s revealing book about the House of Windsor, I bow to her. “The Palace Papers” is entertaining and illuminating, but not tawdry, even as she deals with all kinds of tawdry actions.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Nearly 20 officers stood for about 45 minutes in the hallway outside the adjoining Texas classrooms where the gunman killed students and teachers this week before U.S. Border Patrol agents unlocked the door to confront and kill him, authorities said Friday.
Perhaps this is how it all ends — self-government, self-defense, self-control, liberty, unity, family. Perhaps the fate of the nation is to watch its soul die along with the at least 19 students and two adults shot to death Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Milo M. Farnham, M.D., Independence To the editor: I thoroughly enjoy the weekly articles by attorney Bob Buckley, whose articles include reminiscence as well as incisive comments on various subjects.