Word: globalization
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...radio stations saying] ‘let’s play these songs about someone’s butt,’” said Morgan, a professor of African and African American Studies. To exchange ideas and promote dialogue surrounding issues of global hip-hop, the Hiphop Archive hosted a conference this week entitled “Hiphop Worldwide: More than a Nation,” which brought together hip-hop artists, scholars, DJs, and authors. Founded in 2002, the mission of the Hiphop Archive is to gather resources for the research of the past and present...
...probably fall along these lines: reregulation of the financial markets, followed by the budget, health care and then green jobs. It is a massive agenda for President Barack Obama's first year in office, and already some in the environmental community are worried that their agenda will be sacrificed. Global-warming issues face particularly tough obstacles, especially at a time when the prophets of other crises proclaim more-imminent doomsdays. Obama, says Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch, "is taking on an awful lot of sacred cows all at once, and these are cows that have sharp teeth...
...environmental groups that while he aims to have the greenhouse-gas legislation they have pushed hard for ready by Memorial Day, he'll be competing with House and Senate working groups aiming to have a health-care-reform bill done at about the same time. (See pictures of how global warming is changing the face of the planet...
...possibility of a free lunch for economic policy, because it means you can get more stuff by putting people to work," says a top Administration official. "That's why I think there is a lot of potential in this moment." But the same reasoning doesn't work for a global-warming bill. "That would be more complicated," says the official. (See a photo-essay on the beauty of trees and forests...
...efforts at health-care reform. The same cannot be said for Obama's plans to cap carbon emissions, which many have argued will amount to an expensive new tax that businesses and consumers can ill afford during such hard times. (See how the U.S. can win the war against global warming...