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...said your on-air personality is not that different from your regular personality. Is [host] Padma [Lakshmi] different off the air? No comment on that. (Laughs...
...world leader in energy efficiency, getting more GDP per watt than any other member of the E.U. Carbon emissions are down 13.3% from 1990 levels and total energy consumption has barely moved, even as Denmark's economy continued to grow at a healthy clip. With Copenhagen set to host all-important U.N. climate change talks in December - where the world hopes for a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol - and the global recession beginning to hit environmental plans in capitals everywhere, Denmark's example couldn't be more timely. "We'll try to make Denmark a showroom," says Prime Minister...
...plan doesn't ensure that Denmark will meet its Kyoto targets by 2012. (Denmark has to reduce CO2 emissions to 21% below 1990 levels, one of the most aggressive targets in the world.) The government says Denmark remains on track - and they'll need to be, as the host of the climate summit. "We'll be ready for Copenhagen," says Connie Hedegaard, Denmark's minister for climate and energy, who will host the meeting...
...Harvard’s developments on their side of the river, and they want Harvard to proceed with construction as scheduled. Allston residents are correct to be dismayed by the construction slowdown. The new science complex and the rest of the Allston project will benefit the university in a host of ways over the long run, but we can only receive those benefits once the project is complete and operational. Moreover, the project will improve the city of Allston’s economy, infrastructure, and culture—benefits that will be stalled if Harvard simply buys and holds unused...
...Indeed, the slightest insensitive insinuation is roundly condemned, its perpetrators publicly renounced, and multicultural organizations tasked to host community “conversations” and “raise awareness” to repair the damage. One need not unduly exert his memory to find copious examples. The Salient—Harvard’s impeccably edited premier journal of opinion—several years ago printed a parody of a Barbie-type doll marketed in the Middle East to criticize some of the more repressive policies of the region’s regimes. Unsurprisingly, many campus Muslims interpreted...