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...Rudy exemplified two important qualities as mayor of New York: persistence and innovation, two ostensibly opposing characteristics that he managed to combine to great effect. His methodology was pretty simple. Once he identified a problem, Rudy worked relentless to solve it. Yet, he always did so with an awareness of all the available strategies, harnessing both his abilities and his talented staff to implement novel, yet effective solutions...
Along with a change of her political fortunes as the result of her devastating loss in Iowa and dropping poll numbers in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton's once-flush presidential campaign now faces a problem that few would have expected at this point: a sudden urgency to raise a lot of money fast...
...fame, and fortune so long as it held the promise of being available to everyone," Rozès explains. "The context has changed. The French are worried about the future, and this presidential style now seems out of order." All of which leaves Sarkozy's with a particularly vexing problem: how does a sitting President of France marry a famous beauty without making it into a really big deal...
...less methane will reach the atmosphere, helping to reduce global warming. The local waste company that owns the landfill will be able to sell those greenhouse gas reductions on the international carbon market, and the entire process will keep Suwung's size sustainable, controlling Bali's growing litter problem. "In Bali, they are aware that if they don't take care of their waste, the tourists will go away," says Bernt Harald Bakken, a Norwegian manager at PT Navigat Organic Energy Indonesia, the local company that is running the project. "So there's a strong commitment to keep Bali clean...
...will initially produce about 1 MW of power, starting in 2008, with a maximum capacity of some 10 MW - enough to deliver electricity to around 700 Bali households. Those numbers might seem small, and while the Suwung project is a nice start, that modest scale is part of the problem. CDM projects are one of the most promising ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries - all the more important, given that most of the increase in carbon dioxide in the near future will come from outside the developed world. But while funders are flocking to CDM, with over...