Word: globalization
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...summer months since 1994 have tended to show weakening performance as the summer wears on. We believe this has to do with an increasing trend toward longer summer vacations among the Wall Street set. Also, we are a global market today, and lengthy summer vacations are popular in many corners of the world...
...there was another side to that symbolism. Friday marked 100 days before the beginning of this year's U.N. climate-change summit, to be held in Copenhagen, which is emerging as the world's last good chance to craft a new global-warming deal. With time running out, global negotiators still seem far apart, and there's a growing fear that the world could fumble the opportunity. "Negotiations are moving much more slowly than they need to be," says Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a veteran of past climate talks...
Rhetoric is one thing that the stop-and-start global diplomacy over climate change has never lacked. It's the strength of political principle that has been the truly threatened resource. For eight years, that was largely the fault of the U.S. Under former President George W. Bush, U.S. diplomats played an obstructionist role in climate-change talks, and even before Bush's arrival, the country failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol - the international treaty intended to curb global warming. The U.S. Senate rejected the pact by a cool 95-0, and Bush later pulled it off the table...
...immunologist, behavioral scientist, epidemiologist, or statistician,” said Myron “Max” Essex, the associate director of the Harvard CFAR and a professor of health sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Harvard CFAR is managed by the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH), an interfaculty initiative of the President and Provost’s Office. “Broadly, our mission is to train and educate the next generation of global health leaders and generate new knowledge that leads to addressing the major challenges facing the world in global health...
...widely adopted after being introduced in the 1930s. Women must have choices, they say. "We're getting to the point where people are saying, 'For God's sake, anything that will stop this has got to be [available],' " says Anna Forbes, deputy director of the Washington-based Global Campaign for Microbicides. "We've paid the price in lives...