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...needed." Focus now falls on the E.U.'s internal emissions trading scheme - the first of its kind in the world - planned for launch next year. Under the system, governments will grant more than 12,000 industrial sites an emissions allowance. If a company squeezes its levels under the limit, it can sell its remaining allowance to a firm that's unable to honor its own. National plans outlining the allocations are due in Brussels before April - but so far, none have been submitted. For the environment, that's cold comfort. - by Adam Smith Penalty Time Officials in charge of Germany...
...year-long series of performances. The program includes Janacek’s Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata;” a selection of music by Zhou Long, Chen Yi and Ge Ganru; Tchaikovsky’s Quartet No. 1 in D, Op.11. Tickets free, limit two per person. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
...have to get to the net away from the puck,” he continued. “You’re not going to beat [Danis] with a lot of first-chance scoring opportunities. And that’s something they do well. They limit your ability to get second-chance opportunities...
...Dealing with Putin's Russia is now a dilemma that confronts the West for at least the next four years, and more if he decides to take up his legislature's offer to extend his term limit. If Yeltsin's Russia had been an economic basket case run by a pliant buffoon, Putin's is a major and growing oil producer run by an authoritarian nationalist willing to deal with the West but on an independent and often competitive basis. Its domestic politics are likely to offend the eye for some time to come, but so does the domestic politics...
...famous war criminals, McNamara has never tried to deny that he knew about the carnage that was happening under his watch. In a 1967 memo to President Lyndon B. Johnson, he betrayed his discomfiture with his own policy recommendations when he said “there may be a limit beyond which…much of the world may not permit us to go.” With chilling understatement, he continued: “The picture of the world’s greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound a tiny...