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...aviation industry over the new planes. Hendriks himself says he recently spent three days piloting a very light jet from Wichita to Brussels: "As I was cruising over the Atlantic at 41,000 ft., I thought, 'What an amazing experience, flying this little plane up here.' But then the concern came: what happens when everyone wants this experience...
...study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, if some of the Iran-divestment bills currently before state legislatures "are passed in their broadest form, institutions may be forced to sell $18 billion in investments." Tennessee and Maine lawmakers have rejected terror-free-investment bills, expressing concern that state retirees might suffer lower returns if the provisions passed...
...control pollution and balance profits with corporate social responsibility. But many Western multinationals would still balk at demands to create enough jobs in the host country to offset the corruption, inequality and not infrequent social unrest their fees can fuel. Such things, they argue, are someone else's concern. The persistence of this mind-set is one reason for the endurance of the "resource curse," the term given by economists to the paradox that countries blessed with natural wealth often grow more slowly and become more violent and repressive than others...
...citation of alleged voter fraud in New York City’s 1868 election is absurd. The only specific evidence of in-person voter fraud that the majority opinion cites is an incident in 2004 in Washington involving a single person. Although states should obviously be concerned about voter fraud, especially in the much less reliable realm of absentee ballots, the Court gives states too much leeway in this instance. The risk of in-person voter fraud is too small to place such a burden as government-issued ID onto citizens. The most disheartening aspect of this decision is that...
...traditional or radical, but some hybrid of the two; and it can’t even assume that space means the same things to new students and old designers. But the stakes are high, and the decisions it makes are ones in which we should invest our most intimate concern...