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WEEK | JULY 5, 2008 |  | SAVING THE ‘GLADES
In what is being billed as one of the largest conservation deals in American history, U.S. Sugar Corp., the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar, has agreed to sell 300 square miles of private inholdings within the Everglades to the state of Florida in order to help bring the famed “river of grass” back to life.
By Roddy Scheer
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 | EXXONMOBIL SPILLS, SCORES
The U.S. Supreme Court invoked the ire of 33,000 Alaskans who were hoping to score $75,000 each in belated compensation for the losses incurred by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound.
By Roddy Scheer
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 | COMMENTARY: NEW POWER GENERATION
The technology already exists to radically reduce CO2 emissions, without building new power plants, and without asking consumers to make significant changes in their usage behavior. So why does the power system operate largely the same way it did 60 years ago?
By Winston Hickox Hickox
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 | SORTING THROUGH SADNESS
At the Steung Meanchey landfill in Cambodia, workers and children live among trash, scavenging for metal and plastics to escape crushing poverty.
By John Brown
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 | COVER UP
Cover Up: Forget the sunblock and sunscreen debates—sun-protective clothing offers the ultimate protection from rays, and styles are growing.
By Alan Richman
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| | MORE FROM EMAGAZINE.COM... |  | HEALING HEADACHES
Drug-Free Remedies for One of the Most Common Medical Complaints By Jessica Rae Patton
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| MAKING A LIFE
Redefining Success and Rediscovering Joy By John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirst
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