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...depressing experience - maximum rhetoric expended on minimum accomplishment. In Poznan the atmosphere seems even bleaker. For one thing, economic catastrophe has made it harder for leaders to justify cutting carbon. A recent study by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), the independent investigative arm of Congress, sharply criticized the Clean Development Mechanism, the U.N. body that oversees the Kyoto Protocol's carbon-trading practices. The GAO found that carbon offsets - whereby a company in a rich nation pays for a carbon-reducing project elsewhere in lieu of cutting emissions itself - were at best a "temporary solution," not the answer to climate...
...chair Theodore C. Bestor, when asked if he had a clear idea of how to move forward with budgetary planning within his department. “If, at this point, we’re being given ranges and overalls with no specifics, how do you write a budget with clean numbers...
...owners of the Tribune Company to fire editors at the Chicago Tribune and withhold $8 million of state funds for a children's hospital in hopes of extracting a $50,000 campaign contribution from one of its executives. Blagojevich, who came into office in 2002 with promises to clean up the state's culture of graft, made no comment Tuesday during a bail hearing after which he was released on his own recognizance. But late in the day, his lawyer Sheldon Sorosky told reporters the governor "is very surprised and certainly feels that he did not do anything wrong...
...Gist:Alec Greven, author of the new dating guide How to Talk to Girls, has a lot going for him. He's clean-cut, confident and a published author. He is also 9 years old. And although his relationship advice is nothing new - girls like gifts and attention from boys; they get mad when they discover a boy has been trying to date multiple people at once - its simplicity is remarkably accurate. So much for dating websites and call-in shows: the real answers can be found in what began as a $3 pamphlet handed out at his Colorado elementary...
...unfulfilled promise of a new, clean democracy that has alienated the very Afghans that the West depends on to build a strong, stable country. Educated moderates, such as Samimi, have no love for the Taliban, but they have also become disillusioned with the current government's failings, as exemplified by the unaddressed predations of militia commanders. Francesc Vendrell, the former European Union envoy to Afghanistan, holds that "warlordism," as he calls it, is just as much at the root of the insurgency as religious ideology. "In Muslim society justice is the most essential element and, here in Afghanistan, people simply...