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...less than a week, Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will travel to Oslo to collect their Nobel Prize for their efforts to build awareness of, and combat climate change. Though they will collect a prize worth well over a million US dollars, we could imagine no better present that the United States government could give them than the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, the decade-old international treaty designed to limit emissions and pollution that cause global warming. Ironically, the United States has already signed the Kyoto Protocol (under the Clinton administration) but foregone...
...international leaders were as united as the scientific community on climate change, warming might be a thing of the past. This year the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a series of reports that laid to rest any doubts that global warming is real - and outlined the frightening consequences of continued inaction. At the release of the IPCC's final summary last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon - who has made climate change a top priority of his administration - laid out the threat in stark terms. "The world's scientists have spoken clearly...
...design edge--and the company's manufacturing capacity--helped Sharp dominate the $80 billion flat-panel market for years, with more than 16 million Aquos screens sold since 2001. But competitors rushed in, and by 2005, Sharp had fallen behind Sony and Samsung. Consumers have benefited: three out of four TVs sold in the U.S. are now flat panels, and prices for 25-in.-to-29-in. models have dropped 72% in the past three years, according to DisplaySearch...
...slight allure of a curve at the bottom, partially exposing the speakers. The Japanese model is matte silver with softer edges. The team's job doesn't end there. Sharp's designers are forecasting not just design trends for the next line but also LCD-production capacity, panel size and availability. "All this fuss over just a TV? For now, perhaps just a TV. But not for long," says Saeki. For the team that made television beautiful, the picture is getting bigger...
...Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75, who attended the competition, praised the competitors in his keynote speech and said that the Fed Challenge is the best way for students to learn about the Fed’s role in setting U.S. monetary policy. A panel of judges made up of Senior Vice Presidents of the Federal Reserve grilled each team with questions after their presentations. The teams were judged based on their knowledge of monetary policy, the quality of their analysis, and the evidence of their teamwork and cooperation. “Everyone came prepared...