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...modern business such as Google, to innovative energy producers, to techie projects like MIT’s Vehicle Design Summit, visionaries are beginning to lay the groundwork for huge leaps forward in energy generation and energy efficiency. These technologies have the potential to overcome America’s frustrating inertia on environmental issues, fueling consumer excitement and easing the transition to a cleaner American lifestyle.Except in extreme cases, imploring people to conserve—by turning off their lights, turning down the heat, and walking to work—won’t do the trick anytime soon. Climate change...
Unnavigable bureaucracy, administrative inertia, and monstrous political ambitions have long been the hallmarks of our undergraduate student government. Every year, new candidates take their turns, promising the same old types of reforms articulated in an incomprehensibly detailed platform summarized by a few vapid slogans. But every year, following the election, the UC recedes back into barely noticed oblivion as the new administration neglects—due to incompetence, impracticality, or usually both—the promises so recently made...
Given the U.N.'s endemic inertia, corruption and competing national agendas, do you think it still serves America's national interest to be a member...
...Advocates for universal health care must make a moral argument to counter conservative inertia, but they must make the right one. Otherwise, the public will suspect that they are motivated by a vindictive egalitarianism, rather than a genuine desire to help the medically needy. The leading Democratic candidates—Clinton, Edwards, and Obama—are taking the step in the right direction by stressing the moral case for a sufficient amount of coverage for everyone...
...himself an advocate of touch-screen voting as the elections supervisor of the county that includes Tampa. But since then, while he still believes the "DRE system itself" is sound, he acknowledges the system's margin for "the human error factor" has proven great enough to cause the new inertia. "There's not a lot you can do to mess up with optical scanning," says Browning. "We believe we're doing the right thing in Florida...