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...they do. Indeed, the folks at the White House told me that the President and the infirm 80-year-old Crown Prince were walking on an uneven path in Texas, the prince reached out for support and ... anyway, to reject Abdullah's hand would have been ungracious, and the President will always choose courtesy over ungraciousness--even if the image conveys the subconscious message that the oily Saudis are so important to the U.S. economy that President Macho is willing to act in an unmanly fashion in order to keep them happy...
...first potential papal entanglement came last week when, in the first public statement of the new papacy, the Vatican condemned the Spanish parliament’s recent foray down the path towards legalizing same-sex marriage. The statement went so far as to instruct Spanish Catholic civil servants to refuse to marry homosexual couples, even at the expense of their jobs...
...food service when I went to Boston High,” Wilkins says as he recalls the path of his career...
...picking low-hanging fruits cannot be a long-term solution. Ultimately, developing countries will wish to use the cheaper emission reductions for themselves. Moreover, we cannot indefinitely postpone difficult decisions in industrialized countries by seeking cheaper band-aids in the developing world. Market mechanisms can certainly be a path to a solution to the climate problem, but only if they lead to real technological innovation rather than emission shell games. The most lasting contributions from the developing countries will come not from their ability to cut emissions on the cheap, but from their ability to benefit from technological leapfrogging...
...billion are trapped in unspeakable poverty, forced to survive on less than a dollar a day. The problem is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa. There, deadly diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are on the rise. The quality of physical environments is in many instances on a path to ruin, reflecting unsustainable demands on soils, waters, and the biota imposed by peoples driven to survive in the present without the luxury of planning for the future. It is a sad fact that aspirations for poverty alleviation and environmental protection are often antithetical. Added to this, the toll from...