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...undoubted benefit of the U.N. meeting is that it put climate change back in the headlines, at least for a day. Between the recession, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the problems with Iran - even the fact that it hasn't been a dramatically warm year for much of the world - climate change had dropped somewhat on the international agenda. That will always be a risk for this most long-term of challenges, where the penalties and payoffs of policy changes will unfold over decades. "The true test of leadership is to take the long view," Ban said...
Will We Tune Out? So what is the most sensible way for us to calibrate the risks posed by H1N1? This summer, public-health authorities have worried almost as much about people's risk-benefit equation as they have about the virus. Dr. Karen Remley, health commissioner for Virginia, has noticed that most people seem to fall into one of two categories when it comes to H1N1. "There's a group of people who think it's all gone and over," she says. "There's a group who say, 'Armageddon is going to happen!' The trick is getting people...
...world-leading research institution, Harvard is obligated to use the fruits of its labs to benefit those in need, regardless of their ability to pay. Harvard should measure the value of its research not by its profits but by the number of people whose lives it saves...
...Consider the evidence: Two people living apart require 56 percent more money to sustain themselves than two living together, according to national guidelines on poverty. Children also benefit. Sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that one third of children with divorced parents who participated in their study dropped out of high school, while one tenth of children from intact families did so. One third of their sample’s girls whose parents divorced became teenage mothers—triple the amount of girls from intact families...
...guys ran pretty good races, but I think we’ll have better races in the future,” Stiles conceded. Still, with many of the team’s top runners resting, Saretsky showed little concern with the mediocre results, instead highlighting the benefit of experiencing a course that the Crimson will run twice more this season. “[Van Cortland Park] was a little different this year because of some construction,” Saretsky said. “It helps to see the course and get a good feel for it before...