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...think the situation is not improving? -Antoinette Vermilye, Crans-près-céligny, Switzerland[Sudanese President] Omar al-Bashir doesn't have any incentive to do anything else. We can't sanction Sudan because we don't do trade with it. And al-Bashir can frame any peace-keeping mission as a Western invasion of another Muslim country. So people like the Chinese, who do business with these guys, have to say, "We're not going to trade with you anymore. You guys are going to have to drink oil." That's what it's going to come...
...sign on to caps that could limit economic growth. Instead, Nordhaus and Shellenberger argue for Apollo-program-style government investment in clean-energy research, on the order of $30 billion a year. It's a smart, if not wholly original idea--not least because it would allow greens to frame climate change as an inspiring challenge, not just a pending catastrophe. And that's a contrarian position that just might help win the climate wars...
...Scott Ford, the CEO of Alltel, is advising the Minister of Infrastructure, Google is donating software while eBay decided to build an ecolodge. Since March, the hills of Rwanda have been teeming with thousands of bright green "coffee bikes," designed by mountain-bike maker Tom Ritchey with a lengthened frame to carry a sack of coffee. This isn't all about altruism. Illinois-based stock trader Dan Cooper, who set up Friends of Rwanda with partner Joe Ritchie to coordinate what he calls "this contagious enthusiasm," says: "You get the head of Texaco/Chevron calling Kagame and asking...
...game.” The quick tally marked the first of two Providence goals in the first half—the second coming after a two penalty corners with under a minute to go before the mid-play break. Between the Friar bookend goals of the first frame, junior back Francine Polet slapped in a shot off a penalty corner to even the score at one and earn the Crimson’s only goal of the game. Polet’s tally, her second of the season, was assisted by midfielders sophomore Kristin Bannon and co-captain Jana Berglund...
...team,” Mahon said. “We played well, especially in the first game. The one thing that was the cause of that loss [was] just the strings of points that go by.” Harvard jumped off to an early lead in the first frame, scoring four unanswered points behind Durwood’s serve. But a string of Huskies rallies allowed Northeastern (8-10) to tie the game at 21. After countless lead changes and a timeout from each team, Durwood and captain Suzie Trimble connected to take a 29-28 lead. The Crimson...