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...created a new position for Carol Browner, who was head of the EPA under former President Bill Clinton. She'll be responsible for coordinating the Administration's work on climate change across departments - a necessary post, since global warming touches on science, the economy and politics at home and abroad. All three appointees are charged with one of the most important items on Obama's agenda: getting the U.S. off imported oil and other carbon-rich fuels. "The pursuit of a new energy economy requires a sustained, all-hands-on-deck effort," Obama said. "This time will be different. This...
...Leverett House, Peisker took off on a year-long journey, spending the first half of her junior year living in Moscow and the second studying in a Ukrainian Greek Catholic university in Lviv.As support channels open up across the University, Harvard students are increasingly debunking the myth that study abroad and a Harvard education don’t mix. Last month, David Rockefeller ’36 donated funds that will be used by students to travel during the summer. Last April, Rockefeller donated an additional $100 million that has been earmarked for other study abroad programs and arts education...
...homes you find in rural areas are built from remittances; people point to the homes and describe them as "from Saudi," "from Dubai," "from Italy," etc. When you ask a youngster what she dreams of being, she will say, "I want to be a nurse, so I can go abroad." The outflow of Filipino workers is about supply and demand. It is about globalization and economic growth. I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary and our country does not find it has been forced to destroy the fabric of family life. Lisa Crisostomo, Rillaar, Belgium...
...will consequently swing into deficit next year for the first time since 2001. The stock market has dropped more than 70% in the past year, as the nation's business élite dumped stocks to repay the huge loans they took out to finance acquisitions in Russia and abroad. Capital is fleeing - investors have pulled about $190 billion out of Russia since August - and the ruble is under pressure...
...1960s, Warren M. Robbins, 85, raised $13,000 and took out a mortgage to buy the former home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House in hand, he established the Museum of African Art with work purchased during his travels abroad...