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...More than 1,000 people in the U.S. were trained to give Gore's presentation, 110,000 teachers downloaded a curriculum, and the movie became part of the syllabus in some schools in Britain. Three months after the film's U.S. release, California passed sweeping legislation to curb greenhouse gases. In the days leading up to the legislature's vote, one of the bill's co-authors hosted free screenings of the film. "For policymakers, the release of a movie becomes a focusing event, like a natural disaster," says Matthew Nisbet, professor of communications at American University...
...Congressional leaders such as Representatives John Dingell, Ed Markey, John Conyers, Marsha Blackburn and Senators John Kerry and Barack Obama have raised strong objections to they way the chairman is conducting FCC business, suggesting additional independent panels, investigations into process, and even legislation to curb the commission’s powers...
...average Cambridge sidewalk is infamous for its inability to comfortably accommodate two people walking abreast. Add a four-foot circle around each person and you have an impassable wall of nylon and steel. In the rain, stepping over the curb becomes an impossibility, and phalanxes of overstressed and rushed Harvard students clump up on sidewalks, knotted up by umbrellas. Cambridge’s Puritan planners simply didn’t have umbrellas in mind when they were laying out the cobblestones, but we insist on jamming the streets with them anyhow...
Although the industry continues to defend its "risk-based pricing", which it says has made cards more generally available, the voluntary changes from Chase and Citibank (which eliminated its universal default clause in 2007) show a new willingness to curb some of the more controversial practices. "They are kowtowing to political pressure," says Frank Braden, an equity analyst at Standard & Poors. Adds Levin, "They take it very seriously. I think they are very nervous...
...verdict is still out, however, on whether even the proposed changes will curb our addiction to plastic. One banker told TIME that a byproduct of a recession is that people charge more and don't pay it off, increasing their balances. Another is that it gives a bank that is ready for recession the opportunity to win share from the unprepared. Those might offset whatever pain the prospect of more regulation will bring...