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...Report highlighted many of our successes, it equally challenged Harvard to improve in two key areas: transportation and endowment transparency. In the area of transportation, Harvard scored a “B” grade for transportation because, according to the report, the university does not adequately seek alternative fuel sources or provide environmentally friendly transportation for students and staff. The “C” grade in the area of endowment transparency was likely earned due to a general lack of availability of information to the public and community at large about Harvard’s financial efforts...
...sector, especially the supply of petroleum products for the transportation sector. Since 2003, the price of oil futures contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)–the largest coordinated global market for futures trading in commodities–has more than tripled. This major increase in fuel costs has had a seriously detrimental effect on the American economy, causing enormous demand destruction and adversely affecting GDP growth. But despite the passionate advocacy of public figures such as Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska and House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, offshore drilling provides little windfall: drilling will...
...then the ideology of Islam, or rather a belief system with an inadequate basis in a belief system with no basis in reality. So you can see why someone who prizes rationality would have a problem with that. And Amis minces no words.Islamism, that deranged mania, is the fuel to terrorism’s apparently unstoppable machine. “It is not merely violent in tendency,” Amis writes. “Violence is all that is there.” It is a despicable yet undeniably powerful state of mind, one that swallows up all other...
...action" principle, the clear implication being that when Pyongyang turned over its declaration, delisting would follow. It hasn't, so yesterday, the North told inspectors for the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to remove its seals from the regime's reactor at Yongbyon - which provided the nuclear fuel with which the North has built its small arsenal of nukes. Inspectors have been barred from Yongbyon, and the regime told the IAEA that within a week it would restart the reactor, rendering all the diplomatic progress made by the six-party talks moot. "What they've done is trouble...
...injection of western food aid into a poor economy hurts local farmers by depressing prices, even in an emergency. That makes it even harder for millions of small farmers to buy the high-priced fertilizer or fuel they need to compete. "The backbone of world agriculture is small farmers," says Joaquim von Braun, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. "We will only grow out of the food crisis if these people have access to markets...