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...existing subsidies away from environmentally dead-end technologies like coal and nuclear power. If even half the $500 billion to $900 billion in environmentally destructive subsidies now offered by the world's governments were redirected, the Global Green Deal would be off to a roaring start. Governments need to establish "rules of the road" so that market prices reflect the real social costs of clear-cut forests and other environmental abominations. Again, such a shift could be revenue neutral. Higher taxes on, say, coal burning would be offset by cuts in payroll and profits taxes, thus encouraging jobs and investment...
...Stanford was an early leader in computer science and engineering, and is still reaping the benefits of the vision of those behind the efforts to establish a first-rate department 30 years ago," says Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, who is also McKay Professor of Computer Science...
...Burton, in his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, says he thinks other factors may have impeded his move to establish the respect of the council...
...first duties of government is to establish justice--impartial, independent justice that does not grant favors or privilege one party above another, justice that preserves a government of laws and not of men. One of the first duties of public officials is to ensure that such impartiality is maintained. Unfortunately, in the state of Texas, both the judiciary and the public officials who oversee it have failed in this fundamental task, sacrificing to political interest the principle of equality before...
...most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." And so it proved on Tuesday when a British judge dismissed a claim of defamation by historian David Irving against Penguin Books and U.S. academic Deborah Lipstadt over her 1994 book that slammed him as a Holocaust denier. Irving had sought to establish serious scholarly credentials for his claims that Hitler had been unaware of the Nazis' "Final Solution" until late in the war, and for his attempts to refute the notion that Jews had been systematically exterminated in the concentration camps, but the judge was unimpressed...