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...possible sign of how difficult such programs might be in a global recession, he refused to put a specific amount on the aid offer. But together with the Obama Administration's naming of Todd Stern as its special envoy for climate change, and with Gore's appearance on Capitol Hill, change has already come to the long-deadlocked global talks on warming. "This is a strong signal that Obama is ready to engage," says Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council. "They're set to take off like a rocket...
...pair of top-10 marks with her seventh-place, 5.30-meter jump in the long jump and eighth-place, 11.20-meter leap in the triple jump. CRIMSON MULTI MEET Harvard assistant coach Matt Chisam won the men’s heptathlon with 5322 points, while volunteer coach Kasey Hill won the women’s pentathlon with 4009 points. Senior Shannon Flahive, sophomore Dina Emde, and freshman Nicole Sliva took the two, three, and four spots at 3382, 3066, and 3032 points, repectively. Rookie Christine Reed captured seventh in the event with 2842 points. “The multi...
Instead, he said they were simply part of a decades-long, bipartisan push - from Capitol Hill, the White House, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and even bank regulators - for ever more mortgage lending on ever easier terms. Gramm said he arrived in Washington in 1978 convinced as an economist that subsidizing housing and mortgage lending was a bad idea, but was soon won over to Washington's pro-housing consensus. During his 1990 U.S. Senate campaign, he said, polls revealed that 82% of Texas homeowners supported him over his Democratic opponent. After that, "You didn't have...
...Capitol Hill on Thursday, Tim Geithner sent a little thrill up the leg of all the American trade unions that worked so hard to get Barack Obama elected. The Treasury Secretary-designate - whose appointment, despite his embarrassing tax travails, was waved through to the full Senate yesterday by the Finance Committee - declared in a written statement to the committee that China was guilty of "manipulating" its currency for trade advantage...
...reduction in U.S. carbon emissions by 2030 from 2005 levels, along with subsidies for coal plants that can capture CO2 and a market board to administer carbon offsets. And on Jan. 15, the leaders of USCAP - including GE head Jeffrey Immelt and DuPont chairman Charles Holliday - visited Capitol Hill to pitch their carbon-cutting blueprint. With Bush out of the way, it almost seemed likely. (See TIME's "Innovators of Renewable Energy...