Word: leveler
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...summit ended a whirlwind week for climate news that began on Sept. 22 with a high-level U.N. summit on warming. Before "Climate Week" began, the U.S. Senate made intimations that it would not likely vote on a carbon cap-and-trade bill before the year was up, dimming the chances for a global deal at Copenhagen. But, then, China pledged to improve energy efficiency, while progress was made toward crafting a way to use global carbon markets to slow tropical deforestation. That gave environmentalists some hope. "Overall, I still feel better than I did a week ago," said Carstensen...
...anything other than peace for this [postwar] period, it would already have been worthwhile," he said. But the E.U. could do more to improve its decision-making structure, he added: "Europe needs to be better. It should focus more on issues that have to be discussed at a European level and should hold back from questions that countries can decide." (Read: "Guido Westerwelle, Germany's Mittelman...
...coffee, and esoterica. Their daily smoke sessions serve an indoctrinatory function as well: Tooth enmeshes both Chase and the reader in the interconnections between things as seemingly disparate as Marlon Brando, “Gnuppets” (cf. Muppets), and the redemption of New York City at large. The level of associations starts small at first, focusing on relations between obscure film directors and their actors. As the plot progresses, however, the associations link one into another until they ensnare the entire world of the novel.Insteadman splits his time between Manhattan’s high society, where...
...addition to research on the ground level, a collaboration between HSPH, the Harvard Kennedy School, the CDC, and the U.S. government, is working on ways to train leaders in crisis management and leadership responsibilities—from dealing with terrorist attacks to natural disasters...
...fact, and issue can be resolved through cooperation provided it is a form of collaboration based on honesty, sincerity, and on the observance of the principle of justice among nations. We have said that for our reactor in Tehran for example, we do require fuel in which to the level of 20 percent. This can be a good start for a cooperation area. We even went farther to suggest that our nuclear experts can work together. I mean these are very good, solid proposals to talk...