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...unusual for private companies to deploy outside p.r. flacks when they get into trouble. The biggest firms can charge as much as $40,000 a month to deal with fallout. AIG is now 80% owned by the government, which has pumped in public funds to allow the company to cover its claims and not bring down the world banking system with it. But some of that money appears to be financing damage control. Just how much, is the kind of question that publicly financed bodies are obligated to answer. When he was asked for AIG's p.r. tab, Ashooh gave...
...done about tropical deforestation, since the logging and burning of trees is responsible for a fifth or more of global carbon emissions. The current Kyoto Protocol doesn't address the issue, and many - though not all - environmentalists would like to add avoided deforestation to a new global climate deal, allowing rich countries to offset some of their carbon emissions by paying tropical nations to preserve their forests. Although the idea is a controversial one - Greenpeace released a report in Bonn claiming that avoided deforestation would essentially let rich nations use it as an excuse not to make costlier emission reductions...
...funneled in all day and everyday. We live in an America where people will pay 10 dollars to watch a “Final Destination” movie and have a good time; for a little more, you can get video games in which you can deal drugs and kill prostitutes. We can sign up for breaking news updates on our cell phones, so we never miss a car chase or a police standoff.To say that Americans have become desensitized in the last 30 years is a cliché, but it’s true. This therefore raises the question...
...conceit: Dada prose written by an academic. It’s too scholarly to be absurd, too absurd to be edifying. Unwilling to fully embrace fiction or reality, “The Posthuman Dada Guide” chooses to undermine both. Maybe this is the most Dadaist way to deal with the future—to propose that neither knowledge nor art can save us from our own mistakes.—Staff writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwart@fas.harvard.edu...
Brown, Betty • Asian-American voters are advised by that "it would behoove" them to change their names to ones that are "easier for Americans to deal with," because the only alternative apparently seen by - "everyone here having to learn Chinese," which is understood by to be "a rather difficult language" - is unappealing...