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...Goalless, a history of Indian football, describes it as "India's Lagaan moment" - referring to the 2001 Bollywood blockbuster about a fictional cricket-playing village that beat the ruling British at their own game. This was real life, however, and Kolkata erupted in cele-brations, with Hindus and Muslims, poor and rich, all united in anticolonial sentiment. The glory of the moment cemented football's place in the soul of the city...
...population will disappear by 2050 because of shrinking sea ice. But his main argument is still worth considering. Lomborg believes that it would be far too costly to reduce global carbon emissions enough to actually cool the climate. Since warming is coming no matter what we do and poor countries will suffer the most from it, we should instead direct scarce resources to helping those nations adapt to climate change. That means improving health-care systems and aiding economic growth so that poor countries are better prepared for calamities ahead, climate-related or not. Lomborg is correct to point...
...trying to improve their image through good works. While the corporate social responsibility movement in China is still small, it has some big names behind it. PC manufacturer Lenovo began a computer-recycling service last year. White-goods maker Haier has donated nearly $400 million to school tuition for poor Chinese students. All in all, about 25 Chinese firms had issued reports to shareholders and the public detailing their CSR projects by June this year, up from fewer than 10 last year, according to Syntao.com, a website that tracks good corporate practices in China. "Most of the largest corporations have...
...member of the varsity men’s Alpine Skiing team who attended a JV soccer meeting, said that the team is considering a switch to club status after the fall season in light of a meeting with an Athletic Department representative. He said poor scheduling—the team is slated to play just four games this season—and a lack of communication between players and coaches is also factoring into the team’s decision...
...only serious obstacle could be the same thing that helped Blanco edge out her upstart opponent in 2003 - the impression that Jindal is an overachieving bureaucrat who has little empathy for the poor in a largely poor state. A Rhodes scholar whose parents arrived in the U.S. from India just months before he was born, Jindal was selected to run the state's Department of Health and Hospitals by Blanco's predecessor, two-term Republican Mike Foster, at the ripe old age of 24. The Baton Rouge native guided the bloated department through a rough period of cutbacks, both...