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...vision for the BBC articulated by its director general Mark Thompson is that it will go on doing what it has been doing, but with fewer people, a greater impact and higher standards. Quality is the key, whether it wears a suit and extracts the truth from politicians or spills out of a comedy character's absurdly tight latex outfit. Delivering quality programming is the only way the Corporation can bear out this claim by its deputy director general Byford: "The BBC is here to make the world a better place." It's down to Thompson, Byford and their beleaguered...
...Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg's claim that global warming will only cause us to wear "slightly fewer layers of winter clothes" is not credible. My new book Global Warming and Agriculture uses averages from six climate models and two schools of agricultural-impact models to estimate that in the absence of action, by the 2080s, global warming will reduce agricultural productivity 30% to 40% in India, 15% to 25% in Africa and Latin America, and 20% to 35% in the southern U.S. and Mexico. And if we consider the longer-term catastrophic risks from the runaway greenhouse effect, shutdown...
Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg's claim that global warming will only cause us to wear "slightly fewer layers of winter clothes" is not credible [Oct. 15]. My new book, Global Warming and Agriculture, uses averages from six climate models and two schools of agricultural-impact models to estimate that in the absence of action, by the 2080s global warming will reduce agricultural productivity 30% to 40% in India, 15% to 25% in Africa and Latin America and 20% to 35% in the southern U.S. and Mexico. And if we consider the longer-term catastrophic risks from the runaway greenhouse effect...
...dissents. “Our numbers so far haven’t reflected that shift,” he argues. “I think one of the key examples of that was the success of last year’s Harvard–Yale game.” Fewer students were arrested or drank themselves into the emergency room than in recent history, but the student body as a whole seemed underwhelmed by the tailgate as a social event...
...poor. It’s not easy for other schools to follow the example set by Harvard because they don’t have the money, and they have more low-income students,” Baum said. Donahue took issue with the claim that Harvard had fewer lower-income students than most schools. “We are trying very hard to aggressively recruit talented students world-wide, regardless of their financial backgrounds,” she said. For the first time, the College Board’s study included information on the size of university endowments, which have...