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...viewpoint "Oil is Here to Stay," Peter Huber argues that sufficient supplies of oil exist to quench our thirst indefinitely and that we merely need the political will to extract them. His assessment implies that we should continue our addiction to using fossil fuels without fear of consequence. In fact, we are probably paying for that addiction right now in the form of global climate change. Evidence abounds that the earth is warming?melting ice caps, rising sea levels and perhaps even more intense hurricanes devastating our coasts. Most climate scientists believe the warming is directly related to rising concentrations...
...designed to keep the underclass shut away. "These check points the cops set up - they're road blocks to dissuade us from going into town," Salah-Brahim remarks, saying there isn't much option since "every business has moved out of here - there's nothing left". The same barriers exist for schools and in the job market, he continues. Despite his good grades and keen interest in advanced business studies, Salah-Brahim recalls being told by advisors that it would be more practical for him to learn a manual trade. "I applied to business schools, and got rejections even though...
...years to help locals help themselves, says the mutual accusation and disdain dividing French society from the banlieues must give way to common cause if future violence is to be avoided. "Thirty years of uninterrupted policy errors on integration must end with France accepting the various cultures that now exist within French society - including French-born people who aren't the immigrants their parents are, yet not culturally French either," says the ebullient Vitali. Inspired and driven teachers, more experienced cops, and above all an increase in decent jobs accessible to project residents are urgently needed to reverse the growing...
...most unfortunate and dangerous. Valentine Iheanacho Rome Today's young European Muslims are angry, but no more so than young Tibetans, South Africans or East Timorese. Still, those young people have not resorted to acts of jihadist terrorism. Furthermore, Islamic extremism is not only a European issue. It also exists in Malaysia, Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya and Indonesia - countries that have had nothing to do with the war in Iraq, which Time says is the galvanizing issue of Muslim radicalization in Europe. Andrew Onoro Birmingham, England I am a U.S. citizen who has resided in Spain for more than 30 years...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to be subject to the same open records laws all other police forces are. That lawsuit was heard before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts last Monday; it is now the high court’s task to determine whether HUPD should continue to exist as an exception to an important rule. Presently, Harvard claims that HUPD is something of a private militia and that public records laws therefore do not apply to it. Of course, it’s true that Harvard foots the bill for the department, but the University has no authority...