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...Indonesia, who will be vital in completing a new Kyoto Protocol - that he intends to fight climate change head-on. And his statement may well buoy the flagging global momentum on climate change. The European Union, which has long led the world in aggressively addressing global warming, has lately gotten cold feet about its own ambitious carbon targets, with poorer members like Poland arguing that such goals are unaffordable in a depressed global economy. Big developing nations like China, India and Brazil, which will be responsible for the majority of future carbon emissions, have meanwhile remained reluctant to do much...
...some professors seemed to have gotten the message already. When Smith had trouble with his laptop before beginning the presentation, one professor loudly suggested that the dean’s computer had been a victim of the new budgetary reductions...
...rarely intend to leave, and Kishlansky says his department has “only once ever hired someone who had tenure and gave it up.”The faculty is not primarily composed of Harvard graduates, since “the selection process at the college level has gotten so much more effective,” says Kishlansky. He explains that the most qualified candidates tend to come from a very select group of colleges.“If anything, we’re a little cautious about [hiring Harvard graduates],” says Kishlansky...
...Since then no other solutions have emerged. On the contrary, the problem has only gotten worse, with the number of uninsured Americans rising, along with soaring health-care costs. Fully 15% of the nation's economy now goes toward health care, while nearly 50 million Americans lack coverage. All the while, Daschle, now 60, has continued to work on and speak out for health-care issues...
...months ago, when Somali pirates captured a Ukrainian vessel carrying 33 battle tanks, the temptation may have been to laugh them off as a bunch of ragtag local gunmen who had improbably gotten lucky. But the pirates of Somalia proved they have more than dumb luck going for them last Saturday, when they seized the Saudi supertanker MV Sirius Star and its cargo of more than $100 million worth of crude oil. This occurred despite the attention of navies from the U.S., NATO and others that were patrolling the area to protect shipping. (The Ukrainian vessel, MV Faina, remains...