Word: experts
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From the outset, T.F.A.P. seemed to have more to do with expert opinion in industrial-world think tanks than with actual situations in tropical nations. Perplexed critics asked why India, with few remaining tropical forests, was targeted to receive $1.2 billion, while Indonesia and Zaire, with huge forests, were to receive $193 million and $34 million apiece...
...short judicial tenure. In Ryskamp's defense, Justice Department officials note that his civil rights record mirrors that of other federal judges. But that is largely a reflection of the fact that liberals are an "endangered species" on the federal bench, as Sheldon Goldman, a University of Massachusetts expert on the judiciary, puts...
Last spring, Soka University officials contacted Montgomery at a Pacific Basin Conference and asked for his participation in the program. An expert on development, the environment and U.S. foreign policy, Montgomery once chaired Harvard's Department of Government. He has served as associate director of the African Studies Center at Boston University, and as dean of the faculty at Babson College...
...love foreign cultures. I love foreign languages," says Range, who speaks French and German. "I don't like to travel as a tourist. I like to travel as a journalist because it's your job then to become expert about wherever...
...Indian air, which tends to be alkaline. Besides, observers have yet to see traces of smoke, and certainly nothing that would disrupt the subcontinent's weather patterns. "The monsoon is too large and powerful a global phenomenon to be affected by one local event," says Vasant Gowariker, a monsoon expert at India's Department of Science and Technology...