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...Shake the World," the paper gave Obama a tentative thumbs-up for his policy changes concerning the economy and international relations. "On ethical questions, too - which from the time of the electoral campaign have been the subject of strong worries by the Catholic bishops - Obama does not seem to have confirmed the radical innovations that he had discussed," said the article, which noted that Obama's stem-cell guidelines were "less permissive" than expected...
...biggest concession to all industrial burners of fossil fuels raised the national cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the original proposal of 5.7 billion metric tons (BMT) by 2020 to 5.9 BMT. The difference may seem nominal until you consider what the elite scientific body, the International Panel on Climate Change, urges for the same timeline - a cap of at least 1.3 BMT lower. Only then will there be 50% chance of avoiding a major warming...
Earlier this week , when budget cuts were announced, you were probably thinking of all the past Harvard excesses you’ve witnessed, expenditures that probably seem a lot more superfluous than, say, shuttle service or small section sizes...
...someone money. You go to pay him back. He takes your money - and then charges you $15 for having paid him. That might seem unfair. Yet a few years ago, the Government Accountability Office found it to be standard practice for certain credit-card companies when customers made payments over the telephone. The investigatory arm of Congress couldn't say exactly how many card companies imposed such phone-payment fees - nowhere were the firms required to disclose their policies...
...Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories in that his presence did not detonate any religious or political dynamite. With the quest for peace between Israelis and Palestinians at a dangerous impasse, just making the Middle East trip - against the counsel of some of his more cautious advisers - would seem to carry some bankable positive weight for the Pontiff...