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...crafting an agreement that will provide energy investment in the developing world. Such an agreement would mitigate the high costs of an energy transition for poor countries while providing jobs and business opportunities to the United States and Europe, both in desperate need of economic revival. In an era where American manufacturing is on the way out and finance has been rendered incapable of serving as a foundation for our economy, green technology provides an excellent business opportunity for the United States. China has already realized this, and is building the industry at a rapid rate. We can retake...
...Human-rights groups say they are not opposed to the facility itself, but what it would represent: a continuation of Bush-era policies that allow some detainees to be held indefinitely, without charge. Such policies "are the reason Guantánamo became an international symbol of injustice," says Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project. "If you [open] a similar facility in the U.S., that doesn't solve any of the problems that closing Guantánamo was meant to solve." (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...
...crowded, joyful hodgepodge of book reports, 65 of them written by Skurnick, eight contributed by other writers. There are loving - and less reverent - remembrances of books by Judy Blume, Lois Duncan, Madeleine L'Engle, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Katherine Paterson, among many others, all illustrated with the original (or era-correct) cover art. This is potent nostalgia for girlhoods past; the strawberry scent of Bonne Bell Lip Smackers practically wafts off the pages. (Read "Why Girls Have BFFs and Boys Hang Out in Packs...
...class computer more than once a week. The cause of the decline in handwriting may lie not so much in computers as in standardized testing. The Federal Government's landmark 1983 report A Nation at Risk, on the dismal state of public education, ushered in a new era of standardized assessment that has intensified since the passage in 2002 of the No Child Left Behind Act. "In schools today, they're teaching to the tests," says Tamara Thornton, a University of Buffalo professor and the author of a history of American handwriting. "If something isn't on a test...
...could see and feel the rhythms of history. The year of my birth is now closer to the 19th century than it is to the present day. I was only a small child in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but I have a firsthand sense of what that era looked and felt like, and the ways in which it looked and felt different than the late 1960s and 1970s, and in turn how life since the 1980s has looked and felt compared to those earlier times. I've watched a quarter of all U.S. Presidents in action. This...