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Environment

On Feb. 2, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is "unequivocal," and that human activity has "very likely" been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had played a role.

In recent months, business groups have banded together to make unprecedented calls for federal regulation of greenhouse gases. The subject had a red-carpet moment when former Vice President Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," was awarded an Oscar; and the Supreme Court made its first global warming-related decision, ruling 5 to 4 that the Environmental Protection Agency had not justified its position that it was not authorized to regulate carbon dioxide.

Reportage

The history of Alcatraz:

Alcatraz was not originally a prison, It was built in 1850 as a military fortress for the US army.It became a prison in 1934. About 270 prisoners lived in that prison at a time. The prison was close 1963 because it was to expensive to manage it. More than 1545 prisoners lived in Alcatraz and that place had receive the most dangerous murderers, kidnapers and gangsters like Al Capone and any prisoners could escape from it because en island .

There are many books and films Alcatraz until it became now a tourist attraction and some

Travel:

The city-state of Delhi is a survivor of conquest and change. The Lodi and Mughal dynasties ruled this area, as did the British, until it was again transformed by the refugees of partition. Today, new money has conquered the region, which includes New Delhi, the capital of a rapidly changing India. Spiraling rents have put a Swarovski shop where a small independent bookshop once stood, and in the same market, a shop called It’s All About Bling sells spangly earrings. Thankfully, much of the remarkable history has survived, allowing the visitor to travel easily through the accordion pleats of time.

Entertainment

Hollywood is ready for 80th Oscar Ceremony

Hollywood stars will parade across the red carpet for Sunday's Academy Awards after weeks of uncertainty over whether a writers' strike that had derailed other award shows would be settled in time for the Oscars.

However, the Oscars competition itself appears to hold little suspense, with clear favorites generally expected to win. Joel and Ethan Coen, screenwriting winners for 1996's "Fargo", look to come away as the night's big winners for their crime story "No Country for Old Men", which has dominated at earlier film honors.

Fresh names also dominate the directing category, where only Joel Coen has been nominated before, with "Fargo" (he and his brother only recently started sharing directing credits, so this is Ethan Coen's first nomination in the category). Also in the running are Paul Thomas Anderson for "There Will Be Blood", Tony Gilroy for "Michael Clayton", Jason Reitman for "Juno" and Julian Schnabel for the stroke drama "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Fashion review

The Chanel carousel erected in the middle of the Grand Palais, with a zoo of quilted icons bobbing up and down and great clothes, is a reminder of how big Karl Lagerfeld thinks. This is where so many of the brand revivals fall down; their designers can’t project a big picture. They are small-frame thinkers, tweaking at seams and having absolutely no impact.

Mr. Lagerfeld has been the puzzling and dazzling exception in Paris for close to two decades. For a while, Tom Ford occupied a similar position in Milan, when he blew up Gucci. John Galliano’s success at Dior has been mixed, while Nicolas Ghesquiere of Balenciaga has made a sharp instrument out of a beautiful but small gem.

Finally, on Thursday night, four years after he was appointed creative director of YSL, Mr. Pilati crossed that mysterious bridge to the big stage. In their movement, shape and attitude, the clothes evoked the swagger and spirit of the Rive Gauche era, when Saint Laurent ruled, just as surely as Mr. Lagerfeld’s capture some undefined essence of Coco Chanel.

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