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...Companies that act now will likely be the market leaders in the future. As Denmark's Minister of Climate and Energy, Lykke Friis, explains, "Business, like climate change, is a global challenge and an opportunity. We are in an energy race that will determine international relations. On the one hand, there will be energy exporters, and on the other, those that rely on them...
...temporary coffin carrying Ricketts arrived at Dover Air Force Base on March 2. (The body of Specialist Ian Gelig, also killed in Afghanistan, arrived on the same plane.) Dover is the first stop for dead soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families are often on hand to attend a brief, solemn ceremony as the flag-wrapped cases are removed from the plane and brought to the mortuary. The ban on media coverage of these transfers, in place during the Bush Administration, was lifted in February 2009, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ruled it should...
...military, having chosen to return to civilian life at the end of their enlistment. When his best friend, Kevin Allen, decided to leave the military, Ricketts demurred, saying, "What else could I do? I'm not going to bag groceries. I'm not going to wait on someone hand and foot...
Instrumental in developing Wide World of Sports in the nascent years of ABC Sports, Chet later headed NBC Sports and had a guiding hand in numerous technical innovations, such as the use of instant replay. And, again with the fan in mind and at heart, he hired a Koufax, a Kubek, and several other great sports names as commentators. With two networks behind him, Chet then went to ESPN, becoming the 24-hour sports channel's first president in 1979. "What lies ahead for cable television is incalculable," he said. How right...
...carbon tax enacted by the government, on the other hand, would be weaker than a cap-and-trade system because Congress would be too preoccupied with keeping taxes low, Stavins said...