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...days make. Since an article in TIME one month ago lauded Charlotte's seemingly Teflon economy, a gas shortage closed stations and panicked consumers, and Wachovia went from a possible buyer of Morgan Stanley to being acquired itself by San Francisco-based Wells Fargo. The rush to build new homes has created a housing glut, and several of the construction cranes that had come to symbolize the city's growth now hover over stalled projects...
...appears to still be listening. It's true that at a meeting in Beijing late last week of Asian and European leaders premier Wen Jiabao called for more global regulation of financial markets, but that's become conventional wisdom pretty much everywhere. "Few among Beijing policymakers are arguing to build more walls between China and the outside world when it comes to trade or financial markets," says one western diplomat who attended the ASEM meeting last week. Officials in Beijing are quick to point out that key policymakers at the Bank of China, the National Development and Reform Commission...
...radicalism and it is not about venting a moralistic and paternalistic thirst for power. Neither is it about identifying an enemy for a rhetorical and performative assault. It is, instead, about being honest when it comes to what, exactly, people are going to have to sacrifice in order to build an environmentally responsible society...
...curriculum to 54. Two of the three classes approved were in the sciences—an area in which the committee has had trouble recruiting professors to teach new courses for a general audience. The environmental science course Science B-35: “How To Build a Habitable Planet” will count toward Gen Ed’s Science of the Physical Universe requirement. Life and Physical Sciences A: “Foundational Chemistry and Biology” was approved for the Science of Living Systems category. On the humanities side, folklore and mythology professor Maria Tatar?...
...point of corny, except that, especially now, you get the feeling that the reason he's drawing crowds of 50,000, 75,000, 100,000 - even in purple and red states - is that people want to see what Different might look like. McCain and Palin tried to build fences, looking for safe ground; Obama bulldozed them in search of common ground. "Despite what our opponents may claim, there are no real and fake parts of this country," he said. "We are one nation, all of us proud, all of us patriots. There are patriots who supported this war in Iraq...