Word: path
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...while the technological path to climate-change action is clear, the politics are getting more complicated. As economic growth shifts to the developing world-especially Asia-so will future carbon emissions. Whether the world can effectively combat climate change will be determined by countries like Indonesia and India-and particularly China, which could pass the U.S. as the world's top carbon emitter any day. European nations have staked out bold positions on carbon cutting, and momentum is growing in the U.S. for real climate-change legislation. But if developing countries choose to ignore global warming, even the most radical...
...inflame the south," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security specialist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "Muslim countries will believe we are against minorities." That would be a shame, since historically Thai culture has shown tolerance toward other cultures and religions. "Most Thais would like to find a compromise or middle path on this [constitutional] issue," says Panitan. A Buddhist theologian couldn't have said it any better...
...believe in microfinance because it isn't just a path out of poverty. It's the road to self-reliance. By allowing people to team up and literally become their own bank, you can mobilize people and resources and alleviate poverty on the global scale...
...this has been a welcome change from generations of hokey fairy tales with stultifying lessons: Be nice and wait for your prince; be obedient and don't stray off the path; bad people are just plain evil and ugly and deserve no mercy. But palace revolutions can have their own excesses. Are the rules of fairy-tale snark becoming as rigid as the ones they overthrew? Are we losing a sense of wonder along with all the illusions...
...largely ignore it. More recently, the Bush team has quietly picked up on some of the Commission's most controversial diplomatic ideas, such as talking to Syria and Iran. Alexander and Colorado Democrat Ken Salazar see their measure as a way to both help the White House find a path out of the wilderness and build bipartisan support for its trouble...