24/11/2010
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Burnett broke with convention in her relationships with men. She divorced her first husband, and married and divorced again. Her letters also betray a joyful discovery of eroticism that her public would have found shocking. Continue reading
20/11/2010
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Her novels and poetry are full of conflicts—most of them politically charged—between nature and culture, Canada and the United States, animals and humans, men and women. Continue reading
12/11/2010
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If recently announced policies to curb carbon emissions were enacted, under a “new policies scenario,” renewable energy would reach one third of global power generation by 2035, catching up with coal, compared with 19 percent now, requiring $5.7 trillion of cumulative investment, the report found. The use of biofuels would increase four-fold, meeting 8 percent of transport fuel up from 3 percent now. Greenpeace said that the IEA was underestimating the uptake of renewables. Continue reading
11/11/2010
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Edith “Edie” Windsor, who shared her life with her late spouse, Thea Spyer, for 44 years, filed a lawsuit against the federal government for refusing to recognize their marriage. The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the “Defense of Marriage Act”, a federal statute that defines marriage for all federal purposes as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. Windsor and Spyer were married in Canada in 2007 and were considered married by their home state of New York. Continue reading
