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...predicting a global recovery is difficult. "Expectations are that the worst of the recession is over, but who can be sure of that?" says Edward Chow, senior fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "The global economy is on a sugar high because of the stimulus spending." If the recession lags, oil prices could plummet again, discouraging oil companies from investing in exploration and new drilling and discouraging governments from introducing new alternative-energy programs. (See 10 next-generation green technologies...
...pork. That brings the federal total of pork purchases for fiscal 2009 to about $150 million, or close to $100 million more than last year's figure for the same period. During a Sept. 10 morning press conference, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack also said he would work with fellow Cabinet secretaries in the Defense, Justice and Education departments to encourage pork purchases on military bases, in prisons and in schools...
...there's been no systematic attempt to educate everyone over the age of 12 in the rudiments of crisis response. The evidence is pretty strong from Katrina and 9/11 that the people who were versed in the basics of emergency response fared better and were able to help their fellow citizens...
...Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy announced its slate of fall fellows earlier this week—a group of two journalists and two academics who will stay at Harvard to research issues confronting the modern press. The Shorenstein fellowship program, now in its twenty-fourth year, funds a semester-long term for experts in news media. Fellows are selected by a committee of the Shorenstein Center’s senior staff and Kennedy School faculty. This year’s fellows are John G. Geer, a Vanderbilt professor...
...mark, helped along by the introduction of Jennifer Lawrence as Mariana, a teen whose mother’s affair forces her to grow up too fast. Lawrence has already received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for emerging actors at the Venice Film Festival—an honor previously given to fellow Arriaga actor Gael García Bernal—which her bracing performance richly deserves. Although uniformly believable, the remaining cast does not reach Theron’s or Lawrence’s level. As the guilty mother, Kim Basinger is so shakingly fragile that she comes dangerously close...