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...about the man. And when I began to get to know Le Corbusier—in writing his biography—I found that I knew even less about him a few months after I started than when I began. It was like facing the wall of a Swiss bank vault. Fortunately, I then had access to his letters, and a human being began to come alive for me. Going back to your question, I’m really only interested in writing about people whose works I consider to be marked by genius. For me, Le Corbusier?...
...Bank of America announced yesterday that it will donate $1.2 million to the Harvard University Center for the Environment over the next three years in order to fund research into carbon capture and storage. The bank is partnering with the Center for the Environment as part of its ten-year, $20-billion plan to support environmentally-oriented innovation by investing in renewable energy and financing sustainable construction. The grant will allow the center to step up its research efforts into carbon capture as part of Harvard’s Climate Solutions Program. Carbon capture and storage is the practice...
...project: experts are few, locales are remote and most countries lack the technical capacity to run schemes on their own. Some places will be tempted to take shortcuts. "We have to make sure our standards are credible, and we're not just delivering money that ends up in the bank accounts of central governments," says nrdc's Schmidt. "We need to change behavior on the ground, not just tomorrow but for the long term...
...water that is available is rampant. New Delhi loses as much as 50% of its water through leakage and other forms of inefficiency. It is a pattern repeated throughout the ill-planned urban areas of the developing world. "These cities are leaking buckets," says Junaid Ahmad of the World Bank. (See pictures of the politics of water in Central Asia...
Washington's frustration is understandable. But with Pakistan denying all responsibility for the Mumbai attacks, India has no good options. All New Delhi can do is demand that the well-intentioned but ineffective government in Islamabad crack down on terrorist groups, dismantle their camps, freeze their bank accounts, and arrest and prosecute their leaders. There is little appetite in Pakistan for such action. And the fear remains that expecting Zardari to fulfill even India's minimal demands might be asking him to sign his own death warrant...