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...offering can’t be worse than this.” Kerry would hoist the reports about Americans killed in combat, and you could almost imagine Democratic campaign aides high-fiving each other as news of another insurgent attack hit the wires. Understandably, hoping that Iraq would fail gave many Americans the impression that Democrats…hope that Iraq would fail. Finally, Bush’s “pessimism” charge started to stick...
...will approach managers at multinational corporations that provide support to Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. In the next stage, the church will put forward shareholder resolutions to effect change from within. The church will ultimately divest “only if the other means fail,” Kepler said, adding that no sale of stock will occur before June...
When the Convention on Climate Change was ratified 12 years ago, substantive adverse impacts of climate change were still largely hypothetical. This is no longer the case. Some climate experts like Jean-Marc Jancovici have come to believe that terms like global warming or climate change fail to convey the seriousness and urgency of the problem—what we are experiencing is truly climate shock. It is time to develop aggressive national energy plans that reduce our economic dependence on fossil fuel. In addition, we must begin serious planning for adaptive measures that will be needed to minimize harmful...
...trading schemes where investors from the industrialized countries could capitalize on the cheaper emission reductions in developing countries. The jury is still out on whether this so-called “clean development mechanism” (CDM) will be successful. There are many potential reasons why this experiment might fail. But even if it does not, picking low-hanging fruits cannot be a long-term solution. Ultimately, developing countries will wish to use the cheaper emission reductions for themselves. Moreover, we cannot indefinitely postpone difficult decisions in industrialized countries by seeking cheaper band-aids in the developing world. Market mechanisms...
...quickly established, however, that Hackamore’s interests are more nostalgic than erotic. What he wishes of his former lovers are their memories of his former life and the world beyond his bunker. In one harrowing scene, he becomes apoplectic when the women fail to recount sufficiently memories of their last trips to Las Vegas for his delectation...