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...warming effect hurting the bears. But Kempthorne specifically ruled out using the ESA listing for what he called "back door" climate policy. "The best scientific data available do not demonstrate significant impacts on individual polar bears from specific power plants, resource projects, government permits or other indirect activities in the lower 48 states," he said...
...thing, the study's conclusions are based on data from 2002; today, Kessler says, the rate of mental illness is likely higher due to a variety of causes, including the Iraq war starting in 2003. But, more importantly, lost earning potential is only one of the many indirect costs of mental illness in American society. Social Security payments, homelessness and incarceration add to that economic burden, as well as direct costs such as medications and physicians' care. "The actual costs are probably higher that what we have estimated," Kessler says...
...think tank Rand Corporation, researchers concluded that nearly 20% of returning military personnel from these two fronts - about 300,000 service members - suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Left untreated, PTSD and depression could cost the nation as much as $6.2 billion in medical care and indirect costs during the two years that follow deployment, the Rand researchers estimated. "We need to remove the institutional cultural barriers that discourage soldiers from seeking care," says Terri Tanielian, one of the report's authors. "It's going to take system-level changes to improve treatments for these illnesses...
...Apparently this potential for indirect global change played a part in naming China the host of the 2008 ceremonies. The New York Times reported in July 2001 that the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) delegates “expressed widespread hope that a seven-year buildup to the 2008 Games would accelerate openness in China and facilitate improvement in its record on human rights.” IOC President Jacques Rogge recently called upon the Chinese government to respect its “moral engagement” to improve its human rights practices in the months before...
...Corporate pressure can, however, have an indirect impact on the trajectory of international diplomacy. Olympic sponsors have the ability to sign a statement of concern about the ongoing conflict in Darfur and to exert public or private pressure on the Chinese government to suspend arms sales to Sudan, press for full deployment of UNAMID, and support an immediate ceasefire and a comprehensive peace agreement...