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...anywhere near as hot without a generous German tariff. New research and development might cut atomic costs, just as we hope will happen for alternatives. And the sheer size of the problem facing the global energy industry demands that no solution can be dismissed out of hand. On June 6 the International Energy Agency released a study calling for $45 trillion in energy investments between now and 2050, including both a vast expansion in wind power and the construction of some 1,400 new nuclear plants. The conservatives are wrong to argue that nuclear deserves special treatment - it should live...
...have taken to the streets of downtown Seoul to demonstrate against him. Lee's public approval rating has sunk to around a miserable 20%, and it looks like he'll have to reshuffle his Cabinet to placate critics. That air of invincibility is gone. In an exclusive interview conducted June 3 at the Blue House, the presidential residence, Lee told TIME that he has been trying to adapt his hard-charging leadership style to a political arena in which mandates are shifting and conditional. "Some people have laid criticism on me that I tend to not listen to other people...
...improve ties and to help clear the way for ratification of an important free-trade agreement with the U.S. But to many Koreans, it looked like the President was selling out to Washington, in the process endangering public safety as well as hurting Korea's agricultural industry. On June 1, an estimated 40,000 demonstrators clogged the main thoroughfares of downtown Seoul to protest the decision; police were forced to disperse the unruly crowds with water cannons. Lee was forced to retreat himself, effectively reimposing a ban on imports of U.S. beef from cattle more than 30 months old, which...
Though National High-Five Day already exists - the third Thursday in April every year - the fist bump has yet to claim its own day on the calendar. June 3rd might be a good candidate...
...June 2 suicide bombing outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, which killed six people, has caused a bout of soul-searching in the land of Kierkegaard and Hamlet. More than ever, Danes are asking what price their country can afford to pay for its increasingly entrenched reputation as a forthright critic of Islam...