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...think there’s no better calling than public service. In college, sometimes I went back and forth and said maybe I should go strictly into business and do it through philanthropy. But I chose public service because it gave me a direct opportunity to have direct impact. This may sound silly, but I take pleasure in seeing that the streets are well paved, that we’re educating our kids—those things you don’t get on Wall Street...
...fourth straight month of declines. (July is the last period measured by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index.) "We're seeing a lot of mixed signals in the marketplace right now," says Garrett Alexander, the Mecklenburg County assessor. "I don't think we've seen all the impact of Wachovia. It's too early to tell what that impact will...
...about it, but which rarely ranks it as a high priority. A 2007 survey by the U.N. Development Programme found that 54% of Americans advocate taking a "wait and see" approach to climate-change action - holding off on the deep and rapid cuts in global warming that would immediately impact their lives. (And it's not just SUV-driving Americans who take this position - similar majorities were found in Russia, China and India.) As a result, we have our current dilemma: a steady drumbeat of scientific evidence of global warming's severity and comparatively little in the way of meaningful...
...higher energy costs to their tenants. The panelists also stressed the importance of community involvement and self-determination. Doug M. Brugge, a professor of public health at Tufts, shared stories of community organizing in Boston’s Chinatown, where residents have long battled the city over the impact of transportation projects like the Mass Pike and the Big Dig. “The public transportation developments in Chinatown seem great from a global climate change perspective, a greenhouse gas perspective,” said Brugge, who has received three degrees from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...don’t know where this is going; it’s a dramatic crisis that’s going to have an impact on foreign policy...