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...news: China is set to break all records on greenhouse gases, yet its leaders refuse to consider emissions caps. The good news: they might be willing to adopt some lesser limits, like mandatory improvements in energy efficiency...
...governments such as Britain and Peru. While her advice—to set measurable and specific goals, employ law enforcement instead of the military, and maximize international cooperation—is persuasive, it is hardly revolutionary.As Richardson moves from the historical to the contemporary, she unfortunately begins to adopt the frustrated rhetoric that has characterized so much political “debate” in recent years. Rather than maintaining her exacting standards of analysis, Richardson begins to sacrifice her scholarly precision in her blanket indictment of the War on Terror. Still, despite these shortcomings, “What Terrorists...
...words (and the ideas behind them) don’t automatically replace foreign ones (and the ideas behind them). On the contrary, language encourages a linguistic survival-of-the-fittest. If a foreign idea is so nuanced as to not have an English translation, we English speakers will often adopt the non-English word as our own. Consider the Chinese word “Zen.” While Americans may not understand its historical origin or its literal denotation, most can and do go ahead and use it anyway without searching for an English counterpart. And, just as English...
...first, Vendler said, she didn’t find it unusual that Yeats would adopt varying poetic forms, such as sonnets or ballads; indeed, she said, many poets do. But in the end she found his use of varied poetic forms was too important to pass over...
...while the U.S. and its closest allies are pushing this week for the U.N. Security Council to adopt harsher sanctions against Iran, their prospects of winning U.N. agreement for new punitive measures at this stage appear bleak. Key Security Council powers China and Russia, as well as European states such as Germany and Italy that trade extensively with Iran, warn that new sanctions could endanger such cooperation. But for the U.S. and its closest allies, the fact that Iran's uranium-enrichment centrifuges are spinning is an intolerable fact...