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Carbon-dioxide emissions from the consumption and flaring of fossil fuels (in billions of metric tons...
...size of our economy 18% over the next 10 years. Although American businesses continue to improve their energy efficiency and productivity, the President's goal is to accelerate that trend an additional 30%--the equivalent of taking 70 million cars off the road or avoiding roughly 500 million metric tons of greenhouse gases. In fact, meeting the President's goal will require emissions reductions comparable with what the Kyoto Protocol parties hope to attain--but without the devastating economic consequences of the Kyoto approach...
Amid that kind of background noise, neither Wall Street nor Main Street is tuning in to Bush right now. For investors big and small, "it's a matter of reconnecting the metric--company to industry to economy--that's missing today," says New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.) chairman Dick Grasso. And that may be beyond Bush's capabilities, as well as the public's expectations. The N.Y.S.E. is hurrying up new regulations to give independent directors more control of the companies in their care. And Grasso is looking past Labor Day for investors to reconnect with fundamentals, especially as third...
...read Necessity, is to follow a coherent set of Sacks’ ruminations on a variety of subjects—to be a participant, if only fleetingly, in Sacks’ beautifully realized spiritual odyssey. By Stevens’ and, for that matter, just about any other reasonable metric, Necessity is indeed a damned serious affair—and damned good as well...
...offerings limited in these areas depends crucially on whether or not one knows what one is talking about. Anyone who has actually inspected the course catalog with any degree of care would notice that all three of these areas have unequivocally diverse and rich offerings by almost any rational metric...