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...improve our options. The best guess is that the annual cost of the changeover will remain below 1% of the world's annual income, a very modest price to avoid a potential earthshaking danger. The rich countries will have to help the poor countries in three ways: to get access to the needed low-emission technologies; to bear part of the increased costs of energy in the poor countries at least until those countries can afford it on their own; and to take steps to adjust to the climate change that is already underway and that will still get worse...
...Jordan B. Weitzen ’08, whose Eliot House suite is one of the few on campus with access to satellite television, the television writers’ strike this month has come as something of a blessing in disguise. “It gives me more time to concentrate on more important things, which is nice with papers and finals coming up,” Weitzen said in a telephone interview. Across campus, even among the masses whose dorm-room channel selection numbers in the single digits, the Writers Guild of America’s protest calling for greater...
...would be as un-Labor-like as it could be without becoming the Liberal Party. The only revolution he was about to start was an educational one, and it didn't mean overthrowing the teacher class. It meant upgrading trades training and providing senior students with computers and Internet access. "I am not a socialist. I have never been a socialist and I never will be a socialist," said Rudd, who had previously described himself as "an old-fashioned Christian socialist." Is Labor still a party of the left? a TV interviewer asked Rudd. "The economy is basic to everything...
...country just enough tinkering around the edges of government policy in the areas of Iraq (a phased pull out of Australia's 1,400 troops), industrial relations (abolition of an unpopular Howard program) climate change (ratifying the Kyoto Protocol), education (more laptops in high schools) and communications (faster Internet access) to convince Australians that it's worth making a change. "After 11 years, it's now time to turn the page on this government," Rudd says. "Australia is a great country but not as great...
...hives--it is illegal in Manhattan, where honeybees fall under an ordinance that forbids keeping animals that are "wild, ferocious, fierce, dangerous or naturally inclined to do harm." The solution, it seems, is to put hives up high, where they will be undetected and give the bees easy access to rooftop gardens. David Graves, 57, who has hives on the Upper West Side, in Harlem and on a 12-story hotel in the East Village, says he's never been bothered by the city, "although if a neighbor didn't like bees, I'd give them a jar of honey...