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...seen the proliferation of St. George's flags, as the white middle class retribalizes itself. It's not racist, yet. But we've had waves of immigration in recent years, and the whites are now saying, 'Remember us?' Politics has become a public utility, like sewerage or gas. The monarchy is completely discredited. Holding things together is consumerism. It imposes the only values we have." Ballard's values were shaped by Shanghai. "It was an enormous influence on me," he says of his three years in Japanese custody. "After Pearl Harbor, my secure and settled life was just swept away...
...sales and marketing, a one-hour commute to work in Seattle, for example, could take as little as 20 minutes in High-Occupancy Vehicle lanes, which are open only to cars with two or more passengers.Shiftan and Corker, taking advantage of this incentive—as well as high gas prices and an increased awareness of global warming—started working on the service full-time in June.The Harvard grads chose to launch their service in Seattle for several other reasons as well. “It’s a very young city, it?...
...Credits went where they belonged: "New banks immediately accomplished their basic function - that of extending credits to encourage budding businesses," says Ulf Wokurka, a former Deutsche Bank director and now CFO of Samruk, Kazakhstan's holding company, which runs such giants as KazTelecom and oil and natural gas firm KazMunaiGaz...
...Gordon Brown and embraced by Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Stern report rejected the conventional argument that combatting climate change is bad news for the global economy. On the contrary, Stern determined that inaction would bring far worse economic consequences. If developed nations do not begin to cut greenhouse-gas emissions soon, the economic cost of global warming could amount to 20% of world gdp. A key part of the report calls on corporations around the world to cut back on their CO2 output. Now, as those companies try to address the bottom-line implications of carbon risk, they...
...divest from Dow. The other requested the city manager to assess whether the city uses Dow products. Kaveri Rajaraman, a third-year student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said Bhopal, where she has relatives, is still severely polluted from the spill of heavier-than-air toxic gas. “This resolution will be much needed support for the disaster’s survivors,” she said. “They have not been forgotten.” —Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu...