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...Nelson Mandela will pass the gold-plated World Cup trophy to the new soccer world champion at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a billion sets of eyes and ears from every corner of the globe are glued to television screens and radios. The international sports media will call it the final day of a tournament that represents South Africa’s modernism and rapid, inspirational distancing from its torrential past of racial and economic inequalities. They will only be half right...
...worry is that ramps will soon become as passé as arugula, and that seasonal-minded cooks will take up another spring product, like the fiddlehead fern, as the green of the moment. There is nothing good about the fiddlehead fern. It's not even the wild cousin of anything good. And if fiddlehead ferns start getting touted on menus, then this green-market business will have definitely gone...
Their paper concluded that Congress is more likely to pass a cap-and-trade system—in which the government puts a cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted—than a carbon tax, because the cap-and-trade system exhibits the “independence property”—the theoretical and actual ability of a system to keep costs low and environmental performance high...
...this trend in outsourcing, we have further doubts about the specific firm used by the University of Houston professor in question. While the company, based in Virginia, asserts that all of its “assessors,” or graders, hold master’s degrees and must pass written exams before they are employed, it refused to give specific information on the graders’ educational backgrounds. The firm insists that “the proof is in the pudding” when it comes to the success of their assessors. Yet, this lack of transparency is troubling...
...movement in the next two [to] three years." As part of this campaign, police and paramilitary forces last week engaged in a four-day "area domination" exercise near the village of Dantewada in the Dandakaranya Forest. But the Maoists were not about to let this incursion into their territory pass with impunity...