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...global warming with its "flow" problem. The stock of historical emissions for which the West is largely responsible must be dealt with by assigning responsibility, but the flow - the continuing emissions that developing countries are increasingly adding to - must be resolved by incentivizing cuts on future emissions. They demand more flexibility from India; the U.S. did not sign the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 because it would not accept any binding cuts unless developing countries accepted cuts too. (Watch an interview with Energy Secretary Steven...
...Committee had not met for at least two years, said current committee chair and Professor of English and African and African American Studies Werner Sollors.In the past few decades, faculty bodies coordinating ethnic studies have shifted from ad hoc to standing committees. In multiple instances, students have organized to demand more academic options. The last big student push was in 2002, when a coalition failed to win approval for a certificate in ethnic studies. The committee’s current revival has come in response to interest from the Undergraduate Council and the Ethnic Studies Coalition, an unofficial student group...
...most part, Dean hewed to the same argument for efficiency that Obama has been making across the country, rather than presenting the moral case for giving every American decent health care. He pointed out how the current health care system defeats the free market’s supply-and-demand curve. “Our system is broken,” said Dean, who is also a licensed physician. “Our incentives are broken. Our mindset is broken.” —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu
...summer vacation to end either. Doma employee Subash Khadka estimates they order roughly double the amount of alcohol during the school year. Imagine their surprise when a slew of students in search of alcohol turned up before Labor Day. You don't have to graph any supply and demand curves to figure out we were hit by an temporary liquor shortage...
...majority of the E.U.'s member states later this month - and some governments, like France, Germany and Britain, have already expressed their support - Europe's stance will add weight to moves for a worldwide ban when CITES gathers to vote on the measure in March 2010. (Read "Sashimi on Demand...