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...climate-change negotiations can be a 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...
...more proud of it than writing books. 8. FM: You came to the United States at 17 to be an au pair. How was it?JK: Well I was quite miserable, but I was very lucky. It was great fun in fact to be young in New York. I cut off my hair, bleached it, I dressed in a fashionable way of old clothes because I couldn’t afford new ones. I became a sort of exotic figure, took a lot of drugs, had a lot of sex with people I never saw again. Did lots of things...
...entitled “Germs.”Freshman Seminar Program Department Administrator Corinna S. Rohse described the program’s courses, which allow students to study subjects that vary from Sanskrit to the mathematical basis for chess, as “jewel-like: small and incredibly well-cut.”THE NEXT 50 YEARSWhile the seminar is universally lauded as a unique facet of the first-year learning experience, a conclusion has yet to be reached on how to effectivfely accommodate each applicant to the program.“For many students, the first experience...
Anticipating an economic shortfall of at least $100 million for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences next year, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith asked professors yesterday to consider how they could cut 10 to 15 percent of their departmental budgets...
...Smith offered more details yesterday on the recently announced policy concerning Faculty hiring, saying that the 50 authorized searches that had been underway for new faculty have been cut to 15 this weekend...