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...believe, is to help these nations leapfrog into the 21st century by eschewing the outdated Industrial Era logic that more pollution means more progress. We must help them adopt clean-energy technologies that offer both prosperity and a healthy environment. On my visit last month to India, the government there took a major step in that direction: by 2012, it declared, at least 1 of every 10 new kilowatts of power will come from renewable energy...
...last year. One of her grandsons shared a house with another young man; that made sense to Margaret because he was an unmarried twenty-something, and it made sense that he wouldn't tell his grandmother anything more. But last summer, when the grandson and his partner decided to adopt a child, it was time someone spilled the beans...
...classical philosophy and political theory, thinks Chick's artistic temperament as a writer of fiction represents a refusal to grow up and grapple with the real world of public affairs: "Either you continue to live in epiphanies or you shake them off and take up trades and tasks, you adopt rational principles and concern yourself with society, or politics." Chick responds, "His severity did me good," but adds, "I had no intention, however, of removing, by critical surgery, the metaphysical lenses I was born with...
Both Celera and the Human Genome Project will go after new genomes--among them that of the mouse. (Tellingly, the government researchers are expected to adopt Venter's technique for this task.) Reason: not only are mice useful to test potential treatments, but also--because they share many of our genes--they offer an alternative route to understanding how genes work and how they can cause disease...
...assistance, though, comes at a price. The fund's basic operating premise is that policy adjustments are as important as funds in turning around struggling economies. It therefore requires beneficiaries of its loans to adopt a set of policies in line with the fund's "Washington Consensus" - cutting government spending, opening up markets to foreign trade and investment and adopting the free market principles that have prevailed in the U.S. over the past two decades. Loans are typically disbursed in stages, with IMF officials measuring compliance with the fund's terms...