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...biggest contributors to global warming. A 2000 report by Friends of the Earth on the investment portfolios of the U.K.'s top insurance companies found they invested extensively in global oil and mining companies such as ExxonMobil, Elf Aquitaine and Rio Tinto. "There's a real disconnect between the investment side and the acknowledgment of climate change," says Matthew Arnold, who tracks the U.S. insurance industry as a director of consultants Sustainable Finance. Insurers, however, insist that that's changing. With the growth of carbon-trading markets in Europe and the U.S., and the increasing likelihood that businesses' carbon footprints...
...mouth first being marched through the different compartments of her brain - analyzed, evaluated, and vetted by each of them. What will the consultants think of this? How will it poll? Will working women between 25-35 in eastern Ohio think it's okay? Her fear has caused a complete disconnect from who she really is and what she really thinks - that is, if she even knows anymore...
...only moment of apparent disconnect came during "You and Whose Army?" As Yorke eyed the crowd through the oversized projector screens like a scientist peering at bugs through a microscope, he mocked superpower military swagger, singing "Come on, come on, Holy Roman Empire/ C'mon, if you think you can take us all." The ensuing laughter was more nervous than knowing. There was also a bit of a slump at the end of the elegiac "How to Disappear Completely," when the audience stood in near silence for a couple of minutes before realizing that the set was over. Eventually, though...
...Moulitsas keeps a low profile for the first day, an absence that highlights how Thursday's sincere and dutiful workshops on organizing differ from the intense and volatile political debate readers have come to expect from Daily Kos itself. One journalist presses some workshop attendees on the apparent disconnect between the online bomb-throwers and the chatty, eager conference-goers. A woman explains that one would never attack someone in person the way you can online: "It's the difference between bombing someone from 50,000 feet and sticking a bayonet between their eyes." And most people, she observes...
...solutions to these and other problems. Any change that does happen tends to take much longer than it should. In this vein, here are, not necessarily in order of importance, 10 changes Harvard can and should make in the next year that I believe undergraduates would support.1. UC-student disconnect. Not once in my four years here have I been asked by the Undergraduate Council (UC) or by any other student organization to complete a comprehensive survey about my undergraduate experience. The College recently made me fill one out to get tickets for today’s ceremonies...