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...Sheer greed. Instead of worrying about the perils of global warming, nations and corporations are eyeing the benefits that arise out of it. The new and more intelligent species that should evolve after our extinction will have the impossible task of figuring out why humans were lost to corporate bottom lines. Jagmohan Rathi, Ghaziabad, India...
...other part, however, the environmentalist in me, was revealed to hear that a major corporation finally recognized that global warming is going to have a serious effect on America’s bottom line...
...Summers says he pushed for it to be much higher, but was overruled by the Harvard Corporation—the highest governing body of the University–who set the threshold based on budgetary constraints. Summers says he would like to see HFAI greatly expanded, with a bottom threshold of at least $100,000, but says he encountered strong resistance within FAS to doing so.“The reason this has not been expanded more is because the FAS leadership saw what they regarded as serious budget issues, a view that I could not understand...
...owns a dozen Philadelphia hotspots, insists that the activists had little to do with his decision to remove foie gras from all of his Philadelphia restaurants. "If they said, 'Can we meet with you?' I probably would have, but instead they use the bullhorn, these really creepy tactics. The bottom line is," he adds, "that it's probably not a good thing to do to the animals. But honestly to me it was a non-issue. It didn't sell that well, I don't like to eat it myself...
...torture, the response from the White House is immediate and unequivocal. When the New York Times reported on its front page Thursday that the Justice Department had issued a secret legal opinion in 2005 approving a combination of particularly tough interrogation tactics, White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "The bottom line is that we do not use torture." When Congress and the White House battled over detainee rights in 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker reported the latest in a string of private...