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Although Governor Schwarzenegger's summit was overwhelmed by Obama's wattage, other good news emerged. Representatives from Indonesia - the third biggest carbon emitter in the world, thanks chiefly to massive deforestation - announced that the country would accept "avoided deforestation" projects with partners in the U.S. These projects allow companies in developed countries to pay to preserve forests in rain-forest nations in exchange for the carbon credits contained within the saved trees. Indonesia has long been wary of the method, fearing that it would lose sovereignty over its sprawling forests, but the Nov. 18 announcement is a hopeful sign that...
...this level and it speaks volumes about the wrestler Louis is,” O’Connor says. “It shows that he is absolutely in the hunt to win a national title.”The prospect of such a feat, which would allow Caputo to join John Harkness ’38 and Jesse Jantzen ’04 as the only national champions ever to don crimson, could consume the focus of any athlete. While the senior undoubtedly has the potential to achieve this goal, the humble All-Star deflects too much individual attention...
...Obama's health-care proposal has many of the features of the Clinton plan, including a requirement that most employers provide coverage for their workers and mechanisms that would allow purchasers of health care to join groups for a better deal on their coverage. But unlike the Clinton plan, it would not require Americans who now have coverage (and are satisfied with it) to give that up. Its supporters hope that will make the proposal an easier sell to voters. (See pictures of Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail...
...will be up to the chair of the meeting, Karma Choepel, the speaker of the Tibetan parliament, to allow open and frank discussion. The Dalai Lama will not participate in any of the talks, although he is expected to address the gathering after the end of the summit. The meeting, Barnett says, is "explicitly a response by the Dalai Lama to criticism that his charisma has cramped any space for real discussion." But no one is expecting Tibetans to suddenly shift course from the "middle path," which advocates for negotiating with Beijing for autonomy, not independence, and has been steered...
...specter of the Second World War remained strong as Japan rebuilt itself during Okamoto's painting years in the middle of the last century. Wanting to explore these themes in his own work, Okamoto moved to Mexico, where he felt that the cultural integration of life and death would allow him to do that more freely. When Myth of Tomorrow was commissioned, his secretary and life partner, Toshiko Okamoto, questioned his decision to represent such destructive imagery. "He told her, 'Because it is Mexico, this will work,' " says Akiomi Hirano, Toshiko's nephew and the producer of the Shibuya mural...