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Sadly, if there is anything to be learned from the recent incident involving a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance plane, it is that dealing with China as a strategic partner is a mistake and that any partnership has been quite one-sided indeed...
Just a day later, entertainment company MTVi Group and music application service RioPort.com, Inc. said they would form a partnership. Through the deal, two websites run by MTVi group, Radio MTV.com and VH1atWork Radio, will be the first to offer music downloads from all five of the major record labels by the end of the month...
...municipal governments are working to duplicate such successes. In 1993, Portland, Ore., became the first U.S. city to implement its own CO2-reduction plan, joining a global partnership of municipal governments that eventually included Denver; Minneapolis, Minn.; Copenhagen; and Helsinki. The goal was to slash CO2 emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. Portland's strategy involved a six-point program that included synchronizing traffic lights, planting 75,000 acres of trees (which absorb carbon dioxide) and buying low-CO2 vehicles for the city's fleet...
Last October, BP, Alcan, DuPont and others joined with Environmental Defense to launch the Partnership for Climate Action, pledging to reduce their greenhouse emissions to levels meeting or exceeding Kyoto's requirements. Ford, Daimler-Benz and Texaco have not yet joined, but last year they did quit the misleadingly named Global Climate Coalition, an industry group opposed to emissions controls. Honda and Toyota have introduced hybrid cars with emissions 40% lower than standard models of the same size...
DIED. WILLIAM HANNA, 90, groundbreaking animator who, with partner Joseph Barbera, fathered such unforgettable characters as Scooby-Doo, Fred Flintstone, Tom and Jerry, and the Jetsons; in Los Angeles. In 1930, after losing a construction engineering job, Hanna started composing music for cartoons; by 1937 he had begun his partnership with Barbera. Hanna-Barbera's cartoon comedy won the team eight Emmys, including one for The Huckleberry Hound Show, the first given to an animated series...