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...Other leaders are moving to fill this void. In Florida, Republican Governor Charlie Crist launched a summit on climate change and committed his state to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions 80% by 2050. In Salt Lake City - capital of Utah and among the most conservative states in the U.S. - Mayor Rocky Anderson has emerged as an environmental activist by requiring that all municipal offices be built to green standards. He's one of more than 700 American mayors from across the political spectrum who voluntarily agreed to try to meet or beat Kyoto Protocol targets in their own cities...
...meantime, Huckabee is working to keep his supporters optimistic. "Let me just say that tonight is not a time to start asking, what if? It's a time to start talking about, what now?" Huckabee told a cheering crowd of hundreds that failed to fill a ballroom at the Columbia Convention Center. "I don't want us to leave here saying, well, the game has ended. No, we have just finished one of the quarters of play." One quarter, perhaps, but two very critical steps...
...writers are gonna have to have really strong reasons to turn this down." A film buyer sipping champagne at the bar expressed hope that the prospect of a settlement might calm Sundance's expected buying frenzy. "The prices here were supposed to go nuts with everyone desperate to fill their slates because of the strike," he said. "Hopefully now it will settle down to where it should...
...Hong Kong's port operations, too, have evolved to complement its neighbor, says Michael DeGolyer, a professor at Hong Kong Baptist University who has studied relations between the city and its mainland economic hinterland. "What Shenzhen ports have been doing is straight-through shipment," DeGolyer says. "You fill a full ship with Wal-Mart stuff, and it goes straight to the U.S." That has left Hong Kong's port - which is managed by Hutchison Whampoa, the same Hong Kong conglomerate that operates Shenzhen's - to concentrate on more logistically complex operations, including breaking down containers for shipment to multiple destinations...
...course evaluation system is trying to persuade undergraduates to offer a little more feedback this time around.Professors and administrators hope the new efforts will revive the guide, which has suffered from low response rates. Last spring, 62 percent of course evaluations were at least partially filled out, according to the Office of the Registrar.“They’re low,” said interim Dean of the College David R. Pilbeam. “They’re never going to be 100 percent.”As professors continue to discuss ways of improving student participation...