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...Kyoto Protocol is somehow inequitable because major developing countries were not required to make emission reductions. The argument was originally advanced by the U.S. government as a diversionary justification for its own policy reticence. However, it is now routinely propagated by U.S. nongovernmental organizations as well as U.S. academia. The attacks have particularly focused on China and India. Both countries are easy targets because they have over a billion people each, and just about anything when multiplied by a billion becomes a very large number. The fact of the matter is that the average American still emits nearly 10 times...
Spelke countered, acknowledging the existence of differences between men and women, but arguing that the reason “women are as scarce as hen’s teeth” in academia is due to discrimination...
Today’s article on President Summers’ speech about the Native American experience (“Sept. Remarks Resurface,” News, Apr. 20) goes to show that liberal academia will stop at nothing to see Summers tossed out of office. Everything he said was factually correct, as even his opponents acknowledge. There were no epiteths hurled. While the transcript of remarks cannot tell us about delivery style, there appears nothing in this speech which would seem offensive. One must conclude that the only offense Summers committed was straying off of the politically correct ideological reservation...
...Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, who served a chair of a panel entitled “Graduate Training and the Pathway to the Academic Workforce,” stressed the need for change within academia...
While his career has been focused on academia, Gates said he is enthusiastic about journalism as well. Two-thirds of the 21 Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for journalism...