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...developed countries to pay to preserve forests in rain-forest nations in exchange for the carbon credits contained within the saved trees. Indonesia has long been wary of the method, fearing that it would lose sovereignty over its sprawling forests, but the Nov. 18 announcement is a hopeful sign that the country will move to save the nearly 2 million hectares of forest it loses every year. "This is historic," says Tom Houston, managing director of Global Eco Rescue...
...Many of these protests have stressed first and foremost that opposition to same-sex marriage (incidentally, the position publicly held by the much-beloved Obama) stems from hate rather than from political sensibility. “5,419,478 Bigots Stole Our Civil Rights,” read one sign at a rally in Chicago. “No More Mister ‘Nice Gay’,” read another. This strategy—declaring that opponents of gay marriage are bigots and threatening retribution—is exactly the sort of tactic supporters of gay marriage...
...their goons (presumably from New Haven Community College...or WAIT, isn’t that Yale?!) dressed in HUPD costumes to chase us down. As we ran off Yale’s campus, we saw the final mark of shame. They couldn’t even get their sign right! It said “Welcome to the Harvard Quadrangle”! Idiots...
Shortly afterward, we ran into Yale’s president. He was pleading for donations with a well-worn Au Bon Pain cup and a cardboard sign. Looks like the market has been tough on Yale’s pitiful endowment! What can you expect in this economy though, right...
...Pope's top aides may have already informed Benedict about a campaign promise Obama made on July 17, 2007, to Planned Parenthood, stating that his first act as President would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would undo legislation that put restrictions on access to abortions. Some Catholics have warned that such a decree, which would essentially codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, could force doctors in Catholic hospitals to perform abortions against their conscience. "There's more fear here than wrath," a senior Vatican official told TIME with regard to the Catholic hierarchy's attitude...