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...matter how enlightened Beijing technocrats may be or how thoughtfully new regulations may read, if local governments can do whatever they want, all is lost. Pan Yue, deputy head of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), regularly warns of looming environmental catastrophe. And yet there is no sign of any slowdown in the tide of pollution engulfing the country. Despite Beijing's condemnation of a huge chemical spill that left 4 million residents of the city of Harbin with no running water in November 2005, Pan recently revealed that over the next year, there were no fewer than 130 chemical...
...China's mining sector. Media reports in the wake of the disaster put production from the mine, licensed to produce only 90,000 tons a year, at roughly four times that amount. And according to accounts in China's state-owned media, which gave the accident widespread coverage--another sign of Beijing's concern--the mine operators broke numerous other safety regulations, including the number of miners allowed in the mine and the depth at which they worked. But the principal operator of the mine, according to the press reports, felt protected by the fact that his brother...
...mild norms of politics are a functional equivalent in peace and in war. Our first President set the standard. The Rules of Civility, the etiquette primer that George Washington copied as a teenager, began with this admonition: "Every action done in company ought to be done with some sign of respect to those that are present." So put out that butt...
...poppy industry supports drugs, terrorism, inner-city crime, and civil war in Latin America,” Pinker said, his voice drowned out as the room erupted in guffaws. He called on the latke lovers to sign his petition calling on Harvard and MIT to divest from companies that buy or sell poppy seed hamantashen...
...past agreements with the Jewish state. Hamas leaders have thus far tried to cobble together an acceptable formulation, saying their members in government would recognize past agreements, which implicitly recognize Israel, and that Hamas as an organization would, if Israel withdrew to the 1967 borders, be willing to sign an extended truce. But Mashal and others have repeatedly ruled out explicit and unconditional recognition...