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...conclusion, then, is that policymakers probably can't bolster how well kids do in school simply by crafting programs to encourage homeownership. The $100 billion-plus in annual tax breaks and subsidies sent the way of homeowners might do many things, but helping the nation's children doesn't necessarily appear to be one of them. "You can't conclude that by making more people into homeowners you can cause all these other good things to happen," says Barker, "because maybe these people are different in the first place...
...harvests - on Aug. 28, you would have noticed a steady drip. The environmental group Greenpeace placed ice sculptures of 100 children - made of the glacial meltwater that feeds China's great rivers - inside the temple to symbolize the risk that climate change and disappearing ice poses to the 1 billion-plus people in Asia who are threatened by water shortages...
...Servicing a billion-plus person domestic market, the Chinese energy industry looks to a future of being both the world’s biggest polluter and source of carbon emissions, as well as the globe’s largest and most mature market for renewable energy. As a result, China could come to dominate the international market for renewables. America, which only very recently ceded the title of “top carbon-emitter” to China after a century of unchallenged dominance, and is still living down the Bush administration’s rejection of the Kyoto treaty...
...course, many of the people who invested money with Madoff didn't know they were relying on a rinky-dink accounting firm to watch over their investments. That's because more than half of the $25 billion-plus in losses investors have so far claimed came to Madoff through so-called feeder funds. These funds were set up by outside firms, which would then funnel the money they received from investors to Madoff. Unlike Madoff's, all the firms running feeder funds had well-known accounting firms listed as their auditors. So, for instance, when investors put money...
...Aussie straw can not only add flavor but put the "good" bacteria back. "Tetra Pak is excited because the straw allows the package to do things it can't do today," he says. "In the next three to five years, we'd like to be selling a billion-plus straws a year...