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...highly effective carbon-reducing projects, such as solar power plants and public transit systems - or if it is actually retarding the pace of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by subsidizing the dirtiest industries, which can rather easily and cheaply generate credits because they have the most to clean up and often have the resources to make improvements. Fluorochemical companies in India, for example, have been the biggest generators of CERs for the global market. That's because companies like SRF, a fluorochemical company headquartered outside of New Delhi, emit a gas called HFC-23 during the process of making chemicals...
...parenting psychologist for more than 20 years, I am struck by how often parents are overcontrolling until their child hits adolescence. As soon as said child shows signs of rebellion, many parents abdicate all control because the fight becomes too difficult. Teens are now let loose to drink, smoke and experiment sexually with little guidance. Since they were not taught to develop internal controls, they have great difficulty with impulse control. Really, being a little less controlling when your children are young and a little more so when they are older is a much better formula...
...illustrate the difference, this argument likens abortion to the right to an attorney; if you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you. Contrast this with my right to ride the subway—I certainly am entitled to ride the subway however often and for however long I want, but only provided that I can pay for it. In either case, abortion is considered permissible, but only in the former case would the government be right in funding it. The anti-Stupak arguments do not provide any reason why abortion should become...
...continued to grow, seemingly exponentially. It seems quaint, if not unfathomable, that just three decades ago the differentials that then existed—generally two- to fivefold in earnings between business leaders and doctors and lawyers, or five- to tenfold with professors, scientists, and public servants—were often rationalized by the country’s highest-ranking graduates as reasonable additional compensation to balance the lower standing of business jobs among their peers...
...Winters, who is in the final stage of interviews for a position at a public defender’s office, expressed concern yesterday that the new system might negatively impact the employment prospects of students dependent on funding. Students who seek public interest positions after graduation often work longer stints over the summer in the hopes of making an impression on their employer, but that might not be possible with limited funds, Winters said...