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...wrong to attribute a significant part of the increase in Amazon deforestation to biofuels, as Mr. Grunwald does. First, suggestions that Brazil is a major culprit in global warming are not supported by scientific facts or reliable statistics. Second, the growth rate of Brazilian emissions has been on the decline primarily because of decreasing rates of Amazon rain-forest deforestation, which is the main source of carbon emissions in Brazil, and increasing use of ethanol fuel. Furthermore, from 1970 to 2005 the use of ethanol in our energy mix has averted the emission of 644 million tons...
That's a far cry from the "My country, right or wrong" credo, which confuses blind boosterism with a more authentic, if sometimes questioning, loyalty. At their best, black folk offer critical patriotism, an exacting devotion that carries on a lover's quarrel with America while they shed blood in its defense...
...reputation has taken a beating recently. A Financial Times/Harris poll of Europeans revealed that China is considered the biggest threat to world stability, replacing the U.S. And a Zogby Interactive poll found that 70% of Americans surveyed believed that because of China's poor human-rights record, it was wrong to give the Games to Beijing...
...mean, when you get your grades at Harvard you know what they’re going to be, which is a B+. So it’s not that stressful. At Harvard if you can’t pull out a B there’s something wrong with...
...Furthermore, if the pro-choice movement fully embraces the moral acceptability of abortion as it must, then it follows that there should be nothing wrong with women choosing to use the procedure as birth control. With this logic, there should be no objections against the Yale senior, Aliza Shvarts, for her art exhibition reported nation-wide last week, which may have included footage of multiple artificially induced abortions. If one argues that abortion should be safe and legal, then he cannot, in the same breath, insist that he hopes abortion is also rare...