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...made a very kind and generous offer, and I would want her to know that I am touched that she has offered her time, energy, and money to make our faculty meetings a little brighter. We choose to forego cookies at our faculty meetings as part of our larger effort to live within our new budgetary reality. Unsurprisingly, this amenity was less important to our mission than, say, maintaining financial aid for one more needy student. We certainly didn't eliminate cookies in the hope that someone else would pay for this amenity. The FAS is, of course, not unique...
...factor, say Arias' critics, is that the 69-year-old leader is part of Costa Rica's pre-environmental generation - from a time, before the 1980s, when Costa Rica actually had one of the world's highest deforestation rates. Today's greener Tico cohort came of age after Arias' first presidency in the 1980s, when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end Central America's bloody civil wars. "Mr. Arias has definitely remained in the past century," says Rodriguez, whose Social Christian Unity Party is a liberal counter to Arias' more conservative National Liberation Party. He argues...
...least Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) hopes it is, now that the nation's second largest airline has started quietly asking passengers in Japanese to use the bathroom before boarding any of its 38 domestic flights or four international flights between Tokyo and Singapore. The request is part of the airline's "ecological flight" program, now in its fourth year, to reduce its carbon footprint by lightening planes' loads and reducing fuel consumption. Through the month of October, ANA aims to reduce wgat it carries into the atmosphere by as much as 4.2 tons by asking passengers to pack...
...suffering worldwide, but ANA has fared better than its main competitor, Japan Airlines (JAL), which has three times the number of international flights as ANA. While JAL recently announced job cuts before it starts a massive restructuring plan with government help, ANA's image has been improving - in part because of moves like this one. Rather than cut services and leave passengers in the cold - remember the disappearing blankets? - to reduce costs and be a greener airline, ANA is asking passengers to get involved. And in Japan, sometimes a little suggestion is met with a lot of cooperation. How effective...
...their part, Israelis are wary that they will be asked to pay a price for America's foreign-policy blunders in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the form of a regional settlement unfavorable to the Jewish state. Some polls show that only 4% of Israelis think Obama is "pro-Israeli." Bucking the trend of Israeli leaders' avoidance of confrontations with the White House, Netanyahu has seen his popularity spike as a result of his defiance of U.S. demands for a complete settlement freeze...