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This epiphany certainly didn't happen overnight. Most states have sliced parks budgets for the better part of the past decade - in some cases shrinking ledger sheets by as much as 70%. In Colorado, for example, Bonny Lake State Park in the Eastern Plains near the Kansas border had been open year-round but will now be closed from October through April and will trim its staff from four employees to one. "At the same time we're cutting back, we have one of the fastest growing states in the country, full of people who come here for the beauty...
...right with the markets again. But last week's Shanghai surprise is a foretaste of what can happen if China's vaunted economic recovery turns out to be a dud. The country's better-than-expected GDP performance is one reason for the current view that the global economy is poised to resume growth, an optimistic reading that in turn is helping fuel investment rallies around the world. But stock markets anticipate the state of the economy and corporate earnings months in advance, so today's euphoria can turn into ashes if the reality falls short of expectations...
...according to many energy experts - including Steven Chu, Obama's Nobel Prize-winning Energy Secretary - the science isn't there yet. Significant basic research and development needs to happen before renewables can truly displace fossil fuels. And unlike at the time of the first Apollo project, the U.S. seems far from ready to spend the money needed to create long-term solutions to global warming - which risks the country falling behind in this new scientific race toward a clean-energy economy. "If we are serious about delivering the real technological change needed to really reduce emissions, we need to scale...
Corey Welford, a spokesman for the District Attorney's office, said that a definitive date has not been set for Aquino's arraignment at the Cambridge District Court, but added that it could happen as soon as Monday...
...what if big foreign universities like Yale, MIT, Stanford, Columbia Business School and the London School of Economics could set up campus in India? India's new Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, wants to make that happen. Sibal intends to have new laws in place by next July that would open up India's heavily regulated educational system to foreign players, with a goal of building a skilled pool of local managers and workers to help run an economy that continues to grow at a rate of 6.7%. Sibal also intends to make this new wave of higher...