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...Gibbs' column about several recent warnings delivered on the state of the environment [Sept. 24]. Yet I am at a loss to know what the solutions might be. Gibbs noted that even drastic reductions in greenhouse gases would not be enough to prevent the melting of the Arctic ice cap. We need to know the maximum amount of harmful waste that can be tolerated globally and devise a concrete plan to stay within that limit...
Though Greenland lives large in the world's imagination, the world hasn't always put much effort into imagining what life is like for Greenland's 56,000 residents. But as the increasingly alarming news of its melting 1.8 million square kilometer (695,000 square mile) ice cap has trickled south and the race for polar resources has officially started, the international community is paying more attention to its largest island. By the end of this summer, some 3,400 scientists from 60 countries were working on the landmass. Both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
...harvesting whatever Greenland's icy waters may yield - not to mention the resources under the polar cap - is a long way off. The sea ice is still too thick in most places to access reserves that may or may not exist, and the technology to drill in these inhospitable conditions is not there yet. "If anybody has reached anything, we haven't heard about it," says Mr. Steen Ryd Larsen, who heads the department in charge of Greenland in the Danish Prime Minister's office. "And if somebody reaches the resources, it would be another decade before it generates income...
Last summer Roberta accompanied Beyoncé on a press junket to Madrid to launch the new Emporio Armani fragrance, Diamonds. Several weeks earlier, she says, she was in Cannes dressing "a lot of stars. At the after party at the Hotel du Cap in Cannes, I looked around the room, and there were five tables?George Clooney's table, Scorsese's table. And I thought, These are real friendships, not just product placement...
With an economy growing at about 8% a year and corporate earnings a robust 25%, India has become a must-see for multinational investment banks looking for big, bold corporate mergers, acquisitions and financing deals outside the U.S. The country's total market cap reached $1 trillion earlier this year, up from just $280 billion five years ago. Companies in India's technology and financial sector are booming, and the world's investment bankers are paying court. Banks used to "come to India about once a decade, get spooked and pull out," says industry analyst Janmejaya Sinha of Boston Consulting...