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...energy mix has averted the emission of 644 million tons of CO2, the equivalent of Canada's annual emissions. When compared with the unsustainable energy patterns used in major developed countries, the Brazilian experience can be considered a model. Contrary to what the article claims, ethanol has been a central part of the solution. Antonio de Aguiar Patriota Ambassador of Brazil to the U.S., Washington...
...Defined by education, a central determinant of a worker's economic life, to include all whites with less than a four-year college degree. Source: Ruy Teixeira, Brookings Institution
...China's central government recognized early on that an investment bubble was probably forming. In 2004, for both economic and environmental reasons, authorities in Beijing began pressuring provincial and local officials to curb spending on aluminum, steel and cement factories; state-owned banks were periodically told to stop lending for industrial projects. But local officials often ignored the stop signs. More factories meant more jobs and more growth, which made them look good in the eyes of their political superiors. Not only that, but local officials, who can seize land and issue permits for new projects, were often silent partners...
...Forgács, both history and filmmaking are about attention to detail. Using clips from home movies, Forgács has sought to represent the history of East-Central Europe. After screening several of his films last weekend at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA), the Hungarian filmmaker discussed his relationship to his movies and how the audience reacts to the questions raised by his films. Personal experience has been vital in driving Forgács to make his movies. He spent 39 years living behind the Iron Curtain and, in the 1990s, was deeply affected by the massacres that took...
Come next fall, Massachusetts Hall will reopen its doors to its most deserving residents: first-year students. After the transfer of control of Mass. Hall from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to the University’s central administration in the summer of 2006, the University announced last spring that no members of the class of 2011 would be placed in Mass. Hall as freshmen. This discontinuation of a time-honored tradition for Harvard first-years was unfortunate for pragmatic and symbolic reasons, and the decision to invite freshmen back into Mass. Hall is one that reflects well...