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Plant Would Let Algae Turn Carbon Dioxide to Fuel - NYTimes.com
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Algae Farm
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vehicle fuel
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bioreactors
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specialty plastics
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feedstock
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tax subsidy for ethanol
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Home Buyers Are Drawn to Nearby Organic Farms - NYTimes.com
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Subdivision
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tract subdivision
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working agriculture
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epicurean club
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local community-supported agriculture group
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retiree-friendly businesses
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wildflower meadow
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edible landscaping
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tracts of ranchland
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functional agricultural units
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root crops
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road frontage
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Eating Food That’s Better for You, Organic or Not - NYTimes.com
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food enthusiasts
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magic cure
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the food would not necessarily have to be organic, which, under the United States Department of Agriculture’s definition, means it is generally free of synthetic substances;
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contains no antibiotics and hormones; has not been irradiated or fertilized with sewage sludge; was raised without the use of most conventional pesticides; and contains no genetically modified ingredients.
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returning natural nutrients and substance to the soil in the same proportion used by the growing process
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The government’s organic program, says Joan Shaffer, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department, “is a marketing program that sets standards for what can be certified as organic. Neither the enabling legislation nor the regulations address food safety or nutrition.”
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Today, most farmers who practice truly sustainable farming, or what you might call “organic in spirit,” operate on small scale, some so small they can’t afford the requirements to be certified organic by the government. Others say that certification isn’t meaningful enough to bother. These farmers argue that, “When you buy organic you don’t just buy a product, you buy a way of life that is committed to not exploiting the planet,” says Ed Maltby, executive director of the Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance.
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Professor Howard estimates that major corporations now are responsible for at least 25 percent of all organic manufacturing and marketing (40 percent if you count only processed organic foods).
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ouest-france.fr - La crise frappe... et change l'Afrique de l'Ouest
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« C'est injuste, lance le président de la Chambre régionale de commerce. Nous avons une croissance de 4 à 6 %, une inflation de 2 à 3 %, nos pays ont fini d'assainir leurs finances publiques, et nous sommes jugés comme des « pays à risques », avec des taux d'intérêt de 12 %, alors que l'incurie, ailleurs, est totale ! »
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Placez votre argent en Islande ', disait-on ! En fait, la bourse a chuté là-bas de 94 %, alors que celle du Ghana a progressé de 27 %.
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UEMOA, l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine
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Crop Scientists Say Biotechnology Seed Companies Are Thwarting Research - NYTimes.com
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Biotechnology Seed Companies
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rootworms
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corn-insect specialists
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genetically engineered seeds
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growers honor company patent rights and environmental regulations
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land-grant universities with big agricultural programs
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the industry’s chokehold on research
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Pioneer Hi-Bred
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genetically engineered sugar beet seeds
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An E.P.A. scientific advisory panel plans to hold two meetings next week.
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One will consider a request from Pioneer Hi-Bred for a new method that would reduce how much of a farmer’s field must be set aside as a refuge aimed at preventing insects from becoming resistant to its insect-resistant corn.
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Maïs OGM : le gouvernement ne remet pas en cause la clause de sauvegarde - Planète - Le Monde.fr
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Yvon le Maho
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clause de sauvegarde
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la Haute Autorité provisoire sur les organismes génétiquement modifiés
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Autorité européenne de sécurité alimentaire (EFSA)
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Jean-François Le Grand, sénateur UMP
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Biden outlines US foreign policy
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promising a new American tone in the world
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missile defence shield
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We will engage. We will listen. We will consult. America needs the world, just as I believe the world needs America
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cool relations between the two nations
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European countries should "share the heavy lifting,"
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the Italian government has decided to increase its contribution to Nato forces in Afghanistan by 800 to 2,800 troops this year
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President Medvedev from the very start said very clearly and unequivocally that if there are no interceptors in Poland and the Czech Republic... there will be no [Russian Iskander missiles] in Kaliningrad,
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Geography Is Dividing Democrats Over Energy - NYTimes.com
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unseating of Mr. Dingell
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manageable on the cost end
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Gang of 10, representing the coal-dependent states in the middle of the country
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coal-state Democrats
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coal-dependent state
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Geography Is Dividing Democrats Over Energy - NYTimes.com
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a centerpiece of his campaign
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new emissions standards for automobiles
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lead the country in environmental regulation and the push for renewable energy sources
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brown state-green state clash
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Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to control carbon emissions
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derived only 20.7 percent of its electricity from coal
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drew 86 percent of its electricity from coal
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heat-trapping gases
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FT.com / UK / Politics & policy - Funding doubts for giant wind farm
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offshore wind-farm project
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on a knife-edge
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carbon dioxide emissions permits
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erecting offshore wind turbines
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subsidy scheme
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the cost of offshore wind power – roughly twice that of onshore wind because of the difficulty of installing and maintaining turbines at sea.
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each megawatt of wind power capacity costs about £3m to build: more than the equivalent cost for a nuclear power station
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The comparison is made even worse because offshore turbines might generate power for about 40 per cent of the time, whereas modern nuclear stations operate at about 90 per cent of capacity.
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the Renewables Obligation, the subsidy system for renewable electricity
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tidal energy schemes
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Secretary of State Clinton Arrives at Foggy Bottom - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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assuming the mantle of the nation’s chief diplomat
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special emissaries
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flag-lined lobby
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think outside the proverbial box
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Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns, the top-ranking career diplomat
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special representative
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Mr. Mitchell, a former Senate majority leader, helped broker a peace agreement in Northern Ireland. Mr. Holbrooke, a longtime diplomat, played a key role in the Dayton peace accord, which ended the war in Bosnia.
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We want to send a clear and unequivocal message
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US National Assessment of Climate Change. Overview: Agriculture
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livestock wastes
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crop agriculture
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climate change, as defined by the scenarios examined
in this Assessment, will not imperil the ability of the US to feed its
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profits represents a 13-17% loss of income, while the savings of $3-6
billion to consumers represent less than a 1% reduction in the consumers'
food and fiber expenditures. This large difference exists because much of
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The smaller producer losses in the Hadley scenario, despite
greater productivity gains and price changes, reflect the fact that the US
farmers' advantage over foreign competitors grows and they are thus able
to significantly increase export volume.
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What It Takes to Succeed Now as a CIO - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
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Senior technology executives
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FT.com / Columnists / Philip Stephens - The Obama challenge: is Europe just a spectator?
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he should stop throwing America’s weight around
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the world’s myriad problems
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from the security of the sidelines
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on which side of the Atlantic
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the hoopla of next week’s inauguration
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expectations are so high that they are bound to be dashed
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the deeper ambivalence about Washington’s role
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someone looking to make friends for America rather than search out enemies
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upbeat tone
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some of Mr Obama’s stardust
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A cohesive transatlantic community must be rebuilt on three pillars
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humility
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realism
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Russian bellicosity
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imagination
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The instinct of politicians and policymakers is to put issues into silos: the Middle East is for this week, Russia for next, Iran for the week after that; climate change and nonproliferation can wait a month or two.
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across a broader geopolitical sweep
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Climate change could be slowed by planting crop varieties that reflect more sunlight, claim food scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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higher-albedo crops
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the biofuel minefield
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you could not displace any food production
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To encourage them to grow these reflective crops, farmers could be rewarded with carbon credits
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farmers could earn 23 euros per hectare for the CO2 they prevent from reaching the air
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leaves arranged to reflect more sunlight
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waxier leaves
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geo-engineering schemes
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Congress Urged To Postpone Nation's Switch To Digital TV - washingtonpost.com
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Nation's Switch To Digital TV
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transition to digital television
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TV viewers
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converter boxes
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rabbit ear
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rooftop antennas
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airing analog signals
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digital-only broadcasts
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coupons to help offset the price
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government-mandated switch to digital television
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public safety agencies
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to dig deeper into their own pockets
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Op-Ed Contributors - A 50-Year Farm Bill - NYTimes.com
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grain lands
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gullies
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rills and sheets of erosion
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denuded cropland
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continuous soil-exposure
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monocultures
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soil loss
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minimum tillage
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food supply
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perennialization
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Carbon sequestration
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the husbandry of water and soil nutrients
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Digital Domain - What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting - NYTimes.com
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about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year
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profit margins
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He was curious about the doubling of prices for text messages charged by the major American carriers from 2005 to 2008, during a time when the industry consolidated from six major companies to four.
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text messaging costs and pricing
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All four of the major carriers decided during the last three years to increase the pay-per-use price for messages to 20 cents from 10 cents
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pricing plans
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price-fixing
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CTIA — the Wireless Association, a trade group based in Washington
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A text message initially travels wirelessly from a handset to the closest base-station tower and is then transferred through wired links to the digital pipes of the telephone network, and then, near its destination, converted back into a wireless signal to traverse the final leg, from tower to handset. In the wired portion of its journey, a file of such infinitesimal size is inconsequential.
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Perhaps the costs for the wireless portion at either end are high — spectrum is finite, after all, and carriers pay dearly for the rights to use it. But text messages are not just tiny; they are also free riders, tucked into what’s called a control channel, space reserved for operation of the wireless network.
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That’s why a message is so limited in length: it must not exceed the length of the message used for internal communication between tower and handset to set up a call. The channel uses space whether or not a text message is inserted.
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Text messaging further exposed as a colossal rip-off » VentureBeat
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carriers
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price-fixing
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text message rates
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pay-per-use price for messages
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class action lawsuits filed against the carriers
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costs-per-message
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text messaging bundles
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not only are text messages very small amounts of data, but they have their own control channel in the wireless network — and this channel is being used by the carriers in their operations whether a text is being sent or not
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Operating costs are relatively insensitive to volume. It doesn’t cost the carrier much more to transmit a hundred million messages than a million
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unlimited plans
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FT.com / Brussels - EU climate bill ushers in hard year of talks
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climate change package
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crunch meeting
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committed to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020;
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generating at least 20 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020; and committing billions of euros in funding to develop carbon capture and storage technology.
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• Internationally agreed targets for greenhouse gas emissions cuts by developed countries
• Commitments, probably falling short of absolute cuts, but including curbs on greenhouse gases
• Agreement on measures to help poor countries adapt
• Agreement on how to finance transfer of low-carbon technology to developing countries and for forest preservation
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emissions cuts
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mandatory targets
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Yvo de Boer, the UN’s senior climate change official
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Few would expect developing countries to sign up for absolute cuts in emissions of the kind that developed countries have taken on
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business as usual
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