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...What will happen at this point is that bank stocks will not go up much more, but they will not dive sharply down either. There is enough evidence in comments from the CEOs of Citi and B of A and in the Wells Fargo earnings to show that the idea that banks are insolvent and probably in need of nationalization is no longer part of the consideration of how the problems with the system will be settled...
...carbon emissions. The current Kyoto Protocol doesn't address the issue, and many - though not all - environmentalists would like to add avoided deforestation to a new global climate deal, allowing rich countries to offset some of their carbon emissions by paying tropical nations to preserve their forests. Although the idea is a controversial one - Greenpeace released a report in Bonn claiming that avoided deforestation would essentially let rich nations use it as an excuse not to make costlier emission reductions at home - a broad coalition of countries at Bonn demanded that avoided deforestation be put high on the negotiating agenda...
...would you really want the transfer of your body from the morgue to the funeral home televised? And our generation is perhaps the first in which this is not an entirely rhetorical question. With the bizarre public spectacle of Big Brother star Jane Goody’s death, the idea of a funeral webcast over MySpace seems ever closer.The lifting of the ban is clarified with a clause that necessitates familial consent to film and photograph. This concession to privacy gives me hope that the lifting of the ban is a step forward instead of one backwards. Perhaps it will...
...most prominent thinkers are set loose from their offices and classrooms by director Astra Taylor to roam the sites of daily life—airports, parks, Fifth Avenue. While the philosophers’ ruminations lose their grounding in academic method, the liveliness that takes hold of their ideas more than makes up for the loss, making “Examined Life” 87 minutes of excitement for the mind—with plenty of food for thought left for the walk home from the theatre.The 30-year old Canadian writer/director Astra Taylor has used the medium of film...
...writing to you. I haven’t shown up at your house to duke it out, to resolve this difference between us with fist, or knife, or gun. I want to discuss this matter.And perhaps it is this circumstance that offers a faint idea of the social good that reading does. It acculturates an individual to discourse. To read fiction is to be exposed to a polyphony of voices, to engage with a multitude of perspectives, to imaginatively interact with places and people beyond one’s lived experience. In short (to put it reductively and to make...