Eco-friendly changes are also being made in wedding planning. Indeed, many brides and grooms to be are opting for organic and earth friendly rather opulent and extravagant. There are two million weddings in the United States every year, so trying to reduce the carbon footprint and waste for your own wedding can help lessen the environmental impact of your big day. Here are some tips: Guest Lists The largest environmental and financial impact of a wedding is its size....

In its announcement of the award, the Swedish Academy praised the author’s exploration of war on Danzig (now Gdansk), his home town. “Here he comes to grips with the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, losers and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them. The anguish of war and the social and political problems that West Germany faced before reunification are the principal concerns in his novels....

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Warp-Speed Computers Simulating nuclear-weapon explosions requires the ability to calculate what happens to billions of data points in a fraction of a second. The Department of Energy (DOE) has contracted IBM Corporation to build a 10-trillion-operation-per-second computer system so that it can calculate the effects of weapons in our nation’s stockpile without detonating real nuclear bombs. This advanced supercomputer is slated for installation at the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the year 2000....

Other coins in circulation have also featured women. Sacagawea, the woman who guided Lewis & Clark across the continent, took Anthony’s place on the dollar coin in 1999. Helen Keller appeared on the reverse side of the Alabama quarter in 2003. Fact Monster/Information Please® Database, © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Blue Train has run between Cape Town and Pretoria, South Africa, since 1939 and derives its name from its blue locomotives, railroad cars, and leather seats. It is still considered one of the most luxurious trains running, having been upgraded in 1997 to include televisions and phones in all of its suites. Connecting the east and west coasts of Australia, the Indian Pacific runs from Sydney to Perth in three days, over a distance of 2,461 mi....

Kids ages 6 and under spend as much time in front of a TV or computer screen as they do outside. The television is on an average of 7 hours 40 minutes a day in U.S. homes. The average American child sees about 200,000 acts of violence on TV by age 18. 92% of all U.S. households own a VCR or DVD player. On average, kids ages 6 to 11 watch 19 hours, 49 minutes of TV each week....