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...other form of carbon trading is to get Third World companies to cut their emissions to offset Western pollution. The reason this doesn't work--and why the carbon racket is a farce--is that you need a cap for cap-and-trade to work. Sulfur dioxide emissions in the U.S. were capped, and the trading system succeeded in reducing acid rain by half. But even the Kyoto treaty doesn't put any cap on greenhouse gases in China and India, where billions of these carbon credits are traded. Sure, you can pretend you're offsetting Western greenhouse pollution...
...into a second-story suite at 20 DeWolfe St. early yesterday morning—only to flee after a surprise encounter with one of its residents. This marks the second time that the room has been broken into this academic year. The man, wearing a gray New England Patriots cap and a black leather jacket, entered the suite at approximately 5:17 a.m., according to resident Ho A. Tuan ’09, who had just returned from a late-night study session. Tuan said that he and the stranger stared speechlessly at each other for a moment, until Tuan...
...French Countryside There has to be something to be said for the Common Agricultural Policy, and indeed there is. The timeless contours of la France profonde - at least south of the wheat and beet belt - are a testimony to the long subsidy of French farming. The cap may offend free-trade purists, but on a summer morning somewhere in the Dordogne there's something to be said for impurity...
...pursue a secret bomb-making program. That is why any such outcome should be accompanied by other safeguards: involvement by the international consortium in all Iranian nuclear facilities rather than just the enrichment sites, an agreement that there can be snap intrusive inspections of any facility, a verifiable cap on Iran's production of enriched uranium and a requirement that no facilities be hidden or buried...
...Financial Aid Office as “personal expenses” for other opportunities during the semester? In the hopes that fewer Harvard students will have to choose between being able to socialize with friends and buying course books, we support the proposed Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP).Harvard has been a national trendsetter in the area of financial aid. Largely thanks to the nascent Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), Harvard’s financial aid budget has mushroomed in recent years, reaching approximately $100 million per year. Families making less than $60,000 are no longer required...