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...absorbed these responsibilities. These efforts had been underway before the financial crisis heightened the need to allocate current use of funds efficiently, Dominguez said. Over the last five years, Chile’s economy has been bolstered by a spike in copper prices. As copper accounts for roughly 16.4 percent of the nation’s GDP, according to the Central Bank of Chile, the government was able to accumulate a financial cushion of around $21 billion worth of savings in sovereign wealth funds and a similar amount in central bank reserves, the New York Times reported. Such financial policies...
...city of Hull, Mass., has constructed two large wind turbines along its coast. These wind turbines provide 11 percent of Hull’s electricity needs per year. The city of Hull is also planning to build an offshore wind farm. If completed, these wind turbines could provide more than 90 percent of Hull’s electricity needs...
...after all, merely going to college,” Navarrette writes, “As so many of my classmates from high school–60 percent of them, to be exact–were doing and as others had done for generations before me. Good luck? I didn’t need luck, I thought to myself. Public school...
Obama’s message was in no way out of line or unusual—presidential communication of this sort almost certainly occurs often: behind closed doors and without hype. He determined correctly, alongside his political advisors, that Paterson is particularly embattled—with 71 percent of New Yorkers assessing the governor’s work as either “fair” or “poor.” Paterson might not even survive a challenge in the Democratic gubernatorial primary and could very easily lose to a Republican challenger in the statewide race, especially...
...last section of the Government Museum consists of pieces from the past few years. Contemporary Indian artists have begun using archetypal Indian techniques in new and interesting ways. This trend is unsurprising in a nation whose potential growth rate is expected to average 8.4 percent until the year 2020, with a GDP set to surpass that of the United States by 2050. As the nation grows and develops economically, its people are discovering a newfound pride in their heritage. They needn’t look to the West for expressions of their modernized selves but can instead draw from their...