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Near Andasibe, CI and its partners are working on a project that will hire local villagers to plant new trees on land that had been cleared. The benefit is two-fold: The new forests will earn carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol, since the trees will sequester carbon dioxide that would otherwise warm the atmosphere, and eventually the forests will help rebuild the disappearing habitat for species like the indri. What's more, the project employs job-hungry villagers and gives them a financial stake in the new forests, which is key if conservation is going to work. To save...
...Part of that might have been to do with race, with rivals quick to play that card. During a battle in New York City, one quipped, "You squint your eyes and look deceitful/ That's why God hates Chinese people." But Jin, who uses Asian stereotypes to his own benefit, often had the last word: "Yeah I'm Chinese/ Now you understand it/ I'm the reason why his little sister's eyes are slanted...
...Charlesview project it has privately engineered, Harvard risks another iteration of that sad pattern. We ask President Faust and all our Harvard neighbors not to let this happen. Let’s reopen the conversation on Charlesview, and this time take a larger view of how this relocation could benefit us all. Let’s work together to design a new community we can all be proud...
...that regulations on the banks will be stronger and the capital requirements will increase significantly. “We will see the firms’ cultures change, and their returns will go down as a result,” he said. One student asked the panel which industries would benefit from, or at least not be harmed by, the financial crisis. “Besides the market for HBS professors?” quipped Dean Light, who is also director of the Harvard Management Company. “Private equity firms and hedge funds will be able to pick...
...addressed in due time, and nothing is off the table from the point of view of both short and long-term planning.” After Harvard representatives presented, resident Elizabeth Browne said that she was worried that the University’s additions to the neighborhood would benefit only parts of Allston. “Harvard students and staff are not the only ones who are coming in and out of the neighborhood,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense to me to have all of these wonderful improvements stop...