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...only one who feels that way. Nine other states, from New York to Oregon, have adopted Pavley's landmark legislation to curb their own emissions. The California law, which took effect in January, gives automakers until the 2009 model year to begin phasing in technology to cut greenhouse gases-CO2 and other tailpipe pollutants that have never before been regulated in the U.S. By 2016, cars and light trucks must reduce their emission of these gases by 30%. Officials from Germany to Japan have flocked to California to study the new rules...
...Sounds nice, but is it credible? Sarkozy has built his presidential profile on visions of sweeping economic and labor reform and urges "rupture" with France's social model in favor of the freer-market U.S. and U.K. versions. He's also been a tough law-and-order advocate, promising to "cleanse" the blighted French suburban projects of its young "thugs." "Sarkozy's entire political identity since he made the presidency his obvious objective has been based on tough law-and-order enforcement, and equally radical economic liberalism," says Dominique Reyni?, a political analyst at Sciences-Po in Paris, who says...
...fans too. “She stood out as a remarkable student,” said Bill Mendelsohn, an English teacher at Bergen. According to Mendelsohn, Viswanathan was the editor-in-chief of the school’s online magazine, as well as an active member of the Model UN team and the debate team...
...make that information and knowledge easily accessible to the greatest number of individuals and enterprises,” the report states. The report calls for countries to either follow Finland’s example of raising public funding to meet increased educational demand, or copy the U.S. model where universities rely heavily on private tuition. “The [European Union] universities are in crisis,” said Krupp Foundation professor of European studies, Peter A. Hall. He said that while enrollment has risen in many European universities, the increase in the student body has not been matched with...
...Iran Freedom Concert at Harvard will be repeated in coming months at other progressive colleges—Duke, Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford. The events are a great sign of increasing student activism and student commitment to open forum. The mantra of the concerts should be a model for students, politicians, and citizens everywhere...