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...Fadiman attended a political rally in Pakistan and watched Bhutto speak, despite the threat of tear gas and arrest. She said that Bhutto appeared to believe "there were some things more important than one's own safety...
...time. All those things, but they do it. The bottom line is, we've gotten great support right from the beginning, and from very unusual partners. That was really good and it helps us move the agenda forward. When big companies like that [Pacific Gas and Electric] sign on to it and say we endorse this, then other companies are going to look at this list of endorsements and follow...
...much emissions there [are] with the different industries, and then we'll start regulating it and tightening the noose. We need to really have a ramp-up time, that's important so that come 2020, we want to have the reduction of 25% of greenhouse gas emissions and we want to be at the 1990 level. We want to show that we not only just pass the laws but that we take [them] seriously...
...There are huge benefits because it creates jobs. Now people have to invent new things because we know the most important thing in all this is technology. You can still fly the big plane, you can still drive the big car, but imagine if the plane has no greenhouse gas emissions. It's not the size of the plane, it's just that we need to change the technology of what the engine should be and what should it run on. General Electric is working on that. I've just seen... one of their... engines that are 20% more energy...
...spending, however, has forced Brazil to realize that its security needs have shifted. It must now protect its jungle frontiers in the north and west from the depredations of drug smugglers. And it must also police the territorial waters that are home to regular new finds of oil and gas. The forces it needs to do that have suffered from neglect and disrepair. A recent editorial in the newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo said that almost two-thirds of the air force's planes and half of the navy's ships are unfit for their intended...