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...apartments each take up a whole floor and have in common temperature-controlled concrete floors and pure linen bedding, along with white Havaiana flip-flops and crisp waffle robes for lounging in style...
...Kolstad said. Kolstad, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, discussed climate change yesterday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government using a colorful PowerPoint presentation complete with graphs and charts. Kolstad began by identifying several common criticisms of economics in relation to climate change, including consumption, an economist’s social values, and anti-environmental cost-benefit analysis. “The climate debate tends to focus on putting in environmental energy-efficient light bulbs or driving Priuses,” he said...
...explanation for Putin's popularity may be found in certain similarities to the man often credited with helping to bring down the Soviet Union. It's not that the former KGB man has any policy preferences or even a political style in common with Ronald Reagan, the great icon of contemporary American conservatism. But in the sense that he has made Russians feel good once again about their country, his appeal is Reaganesque...
...however, as British foreign minister David Miliband said, "common sense" prevailed. Gibbons was freed and Khartoum remained calm. But rather than view the Gibbons case as yet another example of a radical regime's autocratic abuse, the West would do well to realize that the events in Khartoum expose the government's weakness, and not its strength...
...does. Beijing and New Delhi both argue that the vast majority of historical carbon emissions came from the developed nations (CO2 stays in the air for up to 200 years), so action should come from the rich first - a contention arguably supported by the UNFCCC itself, which calls for "common but differentiated responsibilities" between nations on climate change. But the reality is that the bulk of future CO2 emissions will come from rapidly growing developing nations, and a climate deal that gave them a free pass would be useless. "We need a process that opens the door for negotiations...