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Coal remains cheap and plentiful in the U.S. (as long as no price is put on carbon emissions), and its supporters argue that "clean coal" will solve the pollution problem. But it's not clear what they mean. "Clean coal" can refer to new technologies that remove pollutants like soot and sulfur dioxide from the waste process, or it can mean capturing and sequestering the carbon burned in coal. The former exists--the Dominion plant is a good example--but the latter does not. And a new report by the International Energy Agency noted that research for sequestration projects remains...
...crash, the savings-and-loan crisis, the meltdown of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund--boisterous, unchecked risk-taking eventually rushed back in. "In times like this, people do listen to risk managers," says John Hull, professor of derivatives and risk management at the University of Toronto. "The problem is, times will become good again, and then you listen to the trader who is making a big profit...
...perennial also-rans the Philadelphia Phillies, we decry his suggestion that baseball is "past its prime" [Nov. 3]. It is true that the '08 season saw a small dip in attendance, but that probably had a good deal more to do with the loss of discretionary income than a problem with the game itself. This year the Fall Classic may not reach as many viewers as some previous contests, but we find the game as it ever was: entertaining, fair and fun. Swing away! Kevin Lawrence, BUFFALO...
Harvard School of Public Health Dean Barry R. Bloom has long thought that public health programs lack one component central to the training of public health professionals: problem solving. But it is only towards the end of his tenure, which began in 1998 and will end this January, that Bloom began to translate his ideas into a viable curriculum, one that would satisfy the requirements of an accreditation council...
...applying the case method, long associated with business school instruction, to public health, Bloom and his faculty hoped to foster a culture that emphasized interactive problem solving over rote memorization...