Word: environmental
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Clearly, those who promote free trade can no longer ignore its non-economic implications. The standard arguments in favor of free trade still hold: It promotes growth and interdependence and helps developing countries improve their standards of living. However, globalization has a powerful impact on questions of labor and environmental protection, and those concerned about these effects will not be persuaded by only economic arguments. The protesters in Seattle saw the WTO and free trade as representative of interests fundamentally alien to their own; the coalition for free trade can only be rebuilt taking these concerns into account, with adequate...
A more effective means to improve the global environment and the lot of workers abroad might include, for example, international accords outside of the framework of the WTO and of trade. If linked to increases in development aid, offering carrots instead of only sticks, such accords might be accepted by...
While other schools offer higher degrees in forestry--Harvard only offers a masters' degree in the specific discipline of forestry--students say Harvard's program offers the benefits of a more intimate working environment.
Welcome to the American school after Columbine. It can be a place brimming with suspicion, where in the past few months school officials have seen a nail file as a knife and blue hair as an omen of antisocial, possibly even violent behavior. (Judges sent both those boys back to...
The good news is that Barak wants to negotiate by mid-February the outlines of a settlement with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and begin talks with Syrian president Hafez Assad on returning the Golan Heights. Arafat and Assad, both ailing, realize this is probably their best and last chance to...