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...booming global economy, are viewed skeptically by those who fear foreign powers might use them to gain competitive advantages or push political agendas. But now, thanks in part to the Citigroup deal, some fears have been allayed; companies in need of capital are courting investments from oil-and-gas-rich states such as Abu Dhabi and Russia, as well as from rising economies like China, which recently formed a $200 billion SWF to help the government invest its burgeoning foreign-exchange reserves. SWFs, says a senior banker at JP Morgan Chase, "are the new 'it' girl of global finance. Everyone...
Whether you want nuclear power or a nuclear bomb, you start off with the same basic material: uranium. In both civilian and military nuclear programs, mined uranium is converted into a gas and then enriched in centrifuges to increase the proportion of U-235--the uranium atoms that start and continue a nuclear chain reaction. Uranium that feeds a power plant needs only 3% enrichment, but a nuclear warhead requires at least 90% enrichment, and more centrifuges. The difference is so significant that international inspectors would probably detect the enrichment change unless Iran chose to enrich its uranium covertly, slowing...
...than a hint of enduring apartheid in the town's layout: colonial mansions for whites in the center, tin shacks for coloreds and blacks on the outskirts. And there's a lingering antipathy toward the British: you still hear tales of Afrikaners refusing to serve Anglos at remote Karoo gas stations. But that Twilight Zone feel - Nevada meets the Deep South - is part of the fascination of this area of South Africa...
...economist’s social values, and anti-environmental cost-benefit analysis. “The climate debate tends to focus on putting in environmental energy-efficient light bulbs or driving Priuses,” he said. “The fact is that most of our greenhouse gas emissions come from all the things we consume.” But condemning an economist’s advocacy of consumption and growth as the cause of climate change problems is an oversimplification of the issue, according to Kolstad. “Growth in and of itself is fine?...
However, a number of concerns have been raised about the potential financial cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and whether a reduction to a level 11 percent lower than in 1990 is a feasible goal given Harvard’s expansion into Allston...