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...Harvard had direct investments in the Sudanese government or in organizations with clear intentions to ensure the furthering of the genocide, I would agree with divestiture. But it is being unreasonable to demand that Harvard’s investors be responsible for money that is no longer theirs. Millions of dollars change hands across the globe every day. It is impossible for moral responsibility to keep pace...
...gasoline and diesel are expected to account for nearly half of the country's oil demand. Last month Beijing approved its first fuel-efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, which will begin to take effect in 2005 and will be more stringent than those in the U.S. Toyota plans to manufacture the Prius, its hybrid gasoline-electric car, in China, where it hopes the clean vehicle will find a significant market. Beijing's government, meanwhile, is working to develop electric cars before 2008, and GM is working with the Shanghai Automotive Group on a hybrid-bus design...
Yang's globe trotting reflects just how powerful China's thirst for fossil fuels has become. A booming but energy-inefficient economy and an emerging middle class in love with cars and other modern conveniences have caused energy demand in China to soar. The nation's oil imports have doubled over the past three years and surged nearly 40% in the first half of 2004 alone, pushing the country past Japan to become the world's second largest oil consumer, behind...
...China's import requirements will continue to rise--putting upward pressure on world crude prices. If China's oil demand keeps growing an average 7% a year, as it has since 1990, in less than 20 years the country will consume 21 million bbl. of oil a day, matching current U.S. consumption. "The world has the oil," says Chen Huai of China's Development Research Center, a think tank in Beijing run by China's Cabinet, "and China has the money." The question is, how much is China--and the world--willing to pay for it? --With reporting by Susan...
...even if the government opened the gates to reimportation, that alone might not have much of an effect on drug prices. With only about one-tenth of the U.S.'s 300 million population, Canada's market is much too small to support the demand from the U.S. Canadian Internet pharmacies posted sales of $1 billion in 2003, compared with the $200 billion market in the U.S. "It's too much volume for us to sustain," says David MacKay, executive director of the Canadian International Pharmacy Association...