Kyodo News

Carbon dioxide emission from international air carriers has almost doubled in the past 30 years with the increasing number of air travels, a study by the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

Noam Chomsky, a linguistics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is world-famous as the originator of the ''Transformational Grammar'' theory, a framework of principles accounting for all language-specific rules.

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