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Under the embargo, it is illegal for U.S. citizens, with a few small exceptions, to trade with the island. But this does nothing to weaken Castro’s grip on power. Trade restrictions merely fuel Castro’s anti-American rhetoric and build support for his government within Cuba and across the world...
...launched the book on one of France's flashiest, trashiest talk shows, and he followed up with a string of controversy-churning TV appearances that further piqued public curiosity. The print press denounced the volume in turn - Libération retitled it The Horrible Swindle - but that too helped fuel purchases. The book now has the distinction of breaking the French publishing record for first-month sales previously held by Madonna...
...Siegel, 56, a professor at Wharton, turned his catchphrase into the title of a best-selling 1994 book, in which he showed that stocks had trounced bonds and cash over every 30-year period from Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton. Siegel's book coincided with--and helped fuel--a long bull market, and America became a buy-and-hold nation. In 1994 stock funds held $853 billion; by 1999 they had $4 trillion...
Added to that increase is an estimated 52 percent jump in CO2 emissions since 1991, caused by the University’s use of more fossil fuel energy...
...Most people don’t think about what happens when they throw a light switch on,” Vautin says. “At the end of a long series of wires there’s a power plant consuming fossil fuel. They don’t recognize they’re having a small impact on air emissions. On the scale of Harvard all that impact really does...