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...largely because they have the most well-off people and the biggest individual carbon emitters. And the study doesn't take into account the carbon that is embedded in imports and exports in global trade. But big developing nations like China - with its rising middle class - won't be let off the hook either. "We think this represents a nice path for distributing the share of the work of cutting emissions between countries," says Chakravarty. The Copenhagen negotiations will be hard fought, but the Princeton paper offers hope that we can find a fair way to climate justice, when every...
...policies, the President can take a page from F.D.R. The first President to use private polling, Roosevelt understood that his popularity could help propel his political agenda. Personality doesn't trump policy, but it can drive it. F.D.R.'s relentless optimism (the motto that graced his office was LET UNCONQUERABLE GLADNESS DWELL) helped him sell his policies to America...
...reporters Andrea Dorfman and interns Rebecca Kaplan and Eric Dodds immersed themselves in F.D.R.'s career. Associate art director Andrée Kahlmorgan designed the package, artist Lon Tweeten produced the WW II graphic, and picture editor Deirdre Read tracked down the photographs that bring the past to life. Let unconquerable gladness dwell...
...nationwide public plan could let Americans keep their coverage when they moved, changed jobs or weren't working--not always the case with private insurance...
...Home in rural Beijing, where I am volunteering as a piano teacher and resident translator for blind or visually impaired orphans, it was 41 degrees Celcius today. That’s 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit, for you Americans. Hotter than body temperature, way into fever, and way, way past moderation. Let me describe some simple ways that heat manifests itself...