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The 90s are over: Five reasons to embrace carbon pricing today

The 90s are over: Five reasons to embrace carbon pricing today

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Trends from the 1990s have made a resurgence in today’s fashion and pop culture. But one unfortunate development from the 1990s stayed with us all along; that of politicians fearing they’ll be “BTUed,” a play on President Bill Clinton’s proposed 1993 “BTU tax,” which was a close cousin to a price on carbon emissions.  Democrats in the House voted — some reluctantly — for the tax, which the Senate soundly defeated. Many House Democrats who lost their seat in the 1994 midterms blamed it on their vote for the BTU tax. This political lesson still resonates; just last week 10 Democrats vulnerable to losing seats in November chose to join Republicans in voting “no” on a carbon tax measure. This political lesson still resonates; avoid forcing congressional votes on divisive issues destined to fail. But the entrenched view that the United States will never support a carbon price is misguided. Here are five key reasons why now is the time for U.S. politicians to embrace it. Since the 1990s, many more American voters have experienced the ravages of climate change firsthand. …

The people who started again in their 90s: ‘I was in the closet for 95 years. Then that door blew open!’ | Older people

The people who started again in their 90s: ‘I was in the closet for 95 years. Then that door blew open!’ | Older people

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The moment Maybelle Blair took a decision – one she didn’t know she was about to take – she says she “felt like all the blood rushed away from my head, down to my toes. I didn’t know what was happening”. Blair, the former baseball player in the postwar women’s league which inspired the 1992 film A League of Their Own, was on stage at the 2022 Tribeca film festival in New York, since she had been involved in Amazon’s TV adaptation. She looked around and wondered why she was still hiding. Although her sexuality had not been a secret among her teammates, she decided there and then to publicly come out at the age of 95. “Out of the clear blue sky, I just blurted out ‘I want everybody to know’,” she says. “I was in the closet for 95 years. That old door blew open. I was sitting there, my eyes wide open, mouth open probably. I thought, ‘Oh my God, after 95 years, you said that?’ And I did. I wasn’t afraid …

What happened to L.A. bank robbers who did heists in the 90s?

What happened to L.A. bank robbers who did heists in the 90s?

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The lawyer insisted that by the time his client got out of prison, he’d be too old to rob banks. It was 1999, and Bruce Bell’s attorney was arguing for a lesser sentence for the robbery of a Home Savings of America in San Fernando. If the judge sentenced him to 24 years in federal prison — the punishment he had meted out to Bell’s accomplice — Bell would be in his 70s by the time he got out. “Certainly over any age of the ability to commit any further offenses,” the lawyer told the judge. Bell was released in 2021 after serving more than two decades. Around two years later, police say, he attempted to rob two banks and stole tens of thousands of dollars from two others. A robbery suspect, identified by authorities as Bruce Bell, was captured by security cameras at a Chase Bank in Sun Valley where he allegedly stole more than $60,000. (LAPD) He was 71. Long past what his lawyer believed was Bell’s prime for robbing banks. And 2021 …

Duchess Sophie’s unexpected 90s wedding guest look before Prince Edward nuptials

Duchess Sophie’s unexpected 90s wedding guest look before Prince Edward nuptials

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Duchess Sophie is always a picture of poise and grace in an array of stylish outfits at any public engagement. But throwing it back to the mid-1990s, the then-Sophie Rhys-Jones was rocking a totally different aesthetic. Discovering a throwback photo of the Duchess of Edinburgh, 59, had us realising how much her style has evolved over the years, especially when it comes to wedding guest looks.  © GettyDuchess Sophie was an unrecognisable wedding guest in 1994 The former Countess of Wessex was seen arriving at the wedding of TV reporter and former flame of Prince Edward, Anastasia Cooke, at the church of Our Most Holy Redeemer and St Thomas Moore in Chelsea in 1994.  The Duchess upped her sartorial game by wearing an unexpected high-shine metallic cropped jacket with a mosaic print and Queen Anne neckline that had covered buttons down the front which she she wore done up. © GettySophie Rhys-Jones was Prince Edward’s plus-one at the wedding of TV reporter Anastasia Cooke The royal paired the jacket with a simple black skirt but …

Ali Smith’s 90s New York punk scene – photo essay | Art and design

Ali Smith’s 90s New York punk scene – photo essay | Art and design

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New York in the 1990s was off-kilter, unfiltered, and out of focus. We – artists, musicians, punks, underground dwellers – lived in neighbourhoods the police largely let police themselves, below the radar of mainstream society, carving lives out of the city’s bedrock with our bloody fists. Long before the immediate feedback loop of social media, our creative ideas bubbled in a cauldron of diversity and inspiration until they could no longer be contained. Matt Verta-Ray and I spent endless days into nights playing music, watching films like Zentropa, taking pictures and making films. On this hazy night, around 1995, we filled his bathtub, took turns donning the same rubber outfit, filled the bathroom with microphones and lights (dangerous much?), and took photos while singing and submerging until the rooster crowed at dawn. (This rooster was both metaphorical and literal. There were a few of them down on the old Lower East Side.) Then we’d run electrical cords from the bases of streetlamps to power PAs and amps, playing shows in abandoned buildings. We walked the …

Revisiting Zurich’s 90s techno scene – in pictures | Switzerland

Revisiting Zurich’s 90s techno scene – in pictures | Switzerland

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Zurich was quick to embrace techno and, by the time the music reached its zenith in the 1990s, the city had become a prime destination for the genre in Europe. Techno parties began as one-time events in cellar and warehouse squats before expanding to become an established club scene with a programme of regular events. The Swiss city’s techno scene was shaped by Street Parade, which was authorised in 1992 as a “demonstration of love freedom, generosity and tolerance”. Kicking off with fewer than 1,000 participants, they have grown steadily to attract 1 million visitors each year – three times the number of the city’s inhabitants. The photographer Jules Spinatsch took pictures of individuals and small groups, often on the fringes of the fast-moving crowd, at the parades in the mid-90s. Individual portraits at Zurich’s street parades in the mid-90s The cold war was over, dull Zurich had become a party city Spinatsch says: “In the picture, the people were to regain their individuality, which had been dissolved in the crowd. Because even a lot …

Japan Earthquake Survivor in Her 90s Rescued After Five Days

Japan Earthquake Survivor in Her 90s Rescued After Five Days

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Police and other rescue workers pulled a woman in her 90s out from under a collapsed house on Saturday in western Japan, five days after a powerful earthquake struck the region, killing more than 126 people. Few details were available, but video footage showed a fleet of rescuers surrounding the site in Suzu, one of the hardest-hit villages. According to the Metropolitan Police Department cited by the Yomiuri newspaper, the woman appeared to be suffering from hypothermia but was responsive. The woman, who was not identified, had been trapped underground beneath the first floor of a two-story house. She was rescued around 8:20 p.m. and taken to the hospital, according to officials in the crisis management office of Ishikawa Prefecture, where Suzu is located. According to Ishikawa officials, the fire brigade and an attending doctor said the woman had suffered injuries to her legs. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, reported that she was able to speak on Sunday morning. The window for finding earthquake survivors is typically three days, experts say, though it is possible to …

Woman in her 90s pulled alive from rubble of Japan earthquake | Earthquakes News

Woman in her 90s pulled alive from rubble of Japan earthquake | Earthquakes News

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The 7.6 quake struck on New Year’s Day, causing extensive damage to communities on the Noto Peninsula. A woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after the area was struck by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 126 people. The resident of Suzu on the northern tip of the hard-hit Noto Peninsula had survived for more than five days after the 7.6 magnitude quake. Nationally broadcast news footage showed helmeted rescue workers covering the view of the area with blue plastic, with the woman not visible. Her condition was unclear. Chances for survival drop sharply after the first 72 hours. About 200 people remain unaccounted for, according to authorities. Among the 126 dead was a 5-year-old boy who had been recovering from injuries he suffered when boiling water spilled on him during the quake. His condition suddenly worsened and he died on Friday, according to authorities in Ishikawa Prefecture, which includes the Noto Peninsula. Most of the deaths recorded so far have been in …

Woman in 90s pulled alive from rubble five days after Japan earthquake | Japan

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A woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major earthquake hit the region, killing at least 126 people, toppling buildings and setting off landslides. The woman in Suzu city, Ishikawa prefecture, survived for more than five days after the 7.6 magnitude quake on Monday. Nationally broadcast news footage showed helmeted rescue workers covering the view of the area with blue plastic, and the woman was not visible. Chances for survival diminish after the first 72 hours. Several other dramatic rescues have been reported over the past few days as soldiers, firefighters and others joined a widespread recovery effort. Among the 126 dead was a five-year-old boy who had been recovering from injuries he sustained when boiling water spilled on him during the earthquake. His condition suddenly worsened and he died on Friday, according to Ishikawa prefecture, the hardest-hit region. Aftershocks threatened to bury more homes and block roads crucial for aid deliveries. Officials warned that roads already cracked could collapse completely. That risk …

Hey Gen Z, We Need To Talk About Skinny Jeans

Hey Gen Z, We Need To Talk About Skinny Jeans

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This is an article for Gen Z. If you’re not Gen Z, just keep scrolling. See that? That was was my millennial attempt to use a TikTok format to show you that I am *hip* and *cool* and agree with Gen Z on a lot of things they do not like about millennials: They think it’s dumb that millennials use the word “doggo,” they don’t think “loving pizza” is a personality trait, nor do they care to which “Hogwarts House” you belong. And they really hate that you part your hair to the side ― it’s middle parts only for Gen Z. But we need to talk about just one of Gen Z’s declarations ― namely that skinny jeans are “over.” First things first: I don’t currently subscribe to wearing jeans of any sort, skinny or otherwise. There’s still a pandemic, and it’s winter and sweatpants exist. With that out of the way, I have to break something to you. Millennials didn’t always wear skinny jeans, either. In fact, much of your wardrobes now were …