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...environment. Our work in Hong Kong has clear objectives and implementation goals backed by a well-established institutional setup. This setup now extends to Guangdong, where our Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, and the Guangdong Governor, Huang Huahua, oversee a Joint Liaison Group to agree on action plans and monitor progress on the environment for the whole Pearl River Delta region. The target on air quality is to achieve emissions reductions for both sides by 2010. The reduction program has started and 16 state-of-the-art monitoring stations are now up and running. If one compares the air quality...
...France [May 15]. Clearly the cave and its irreplaceable paintings are still at grave risk. The French government must end its secretive handling of the cave, the crisis and attempted treatments. A truly international, independent group of scientists and experts in cave art and conservation should be allowed to monitor and report to the world on the cave and its health. Lascaux is not an heirloom of French or even Western culture. It is an expression of the earliest experience of being human. The Lascaux discovery in 1940 redefined what was previously known about human beings' creative development and ability...
...could say that well-known author Melissa E. Scott ’81 fell into science-fiction writing.Scott first encountered the genre after a gym-class incident that left her with a broken arm and a gig as a library monitor. “I’m not the world’s most coordinated human being,” she says. A precocious child who learned to read at three, Scott recounts becoming immersed in thrillers while at the library. “From then on, I was pretty much hooked,” Scott says. Scott...
...France [May 15]. Clearly the cave and its irreplaceable paintings are still at grave risk. The French government must end its secretive handling of the cave, the crisis and attempted treatments. A truly international, independent group of scientists and experts in cave art and conservation should be allowed to monitor and report to the world on the cave and its health. Lascaux is not an heirloom of French or even Western culture. It is an expression of the earliest experience of being human. The Lascaux discovery in 1940 redefined what was previously known about human beings' creative development and ability...
...First, does the new White House chief of staff, Josh Bolten, understand the job? In this day and age, Treasury secretaries really have only one job: to monitor, regulate and above all reassure financial markets. A Treasury boss should above all be a horse whisperer, someone who quietly speaks to key people around the world about changes in our own economy, alerts them to trends in fiscal policy, and takes in information from key players in the private sector for use by policy makers in Washington. In essence, he's sort of a double agent in the house of finance...