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...cold, gray winter sky sags low over northern French town of Hem - a little over five miles east of the bustling city of Lille, but on a different socio-economic planet. While Lille's jobless rate of 10% is above the national average of 8.6% (in large part due to its sizeable university population), more than one in four of Hem's nearly 20,000 residents is out of work. Most of those live in the Hauts Champs/Longchamp neighborhood, a cluster of housing projects that crowds more than half of the town's residents into just...
...today, there is hope under Hem's gray clouds, kindled by goodwill, hard work, and a huge injection of funds aimed at bringing the town, like hundreds of other disenfranchised suburbs that exploded in rioting late in 2005, back to Planet France...
...some signs of change. Arnold Schwarzenegger has shown? I mean, look, I profoundly believe the environment should be an issue the center-right grabs hold of. We believe that you care about what you pass on to your children. What's more important a part of inheritance than the planet? And the center-right recognize that there are lots of market-based solutions to environmental problems that we should be championing, so I think that on every grounds it's sensible for the center-right to be campaigning on these issues...
...Environmental Entrepreneurs "How business saw the light" [Jan. 15] stated, "2006 was the year corporations began acting as if their existence - like the rest of the planet's - was tied to the environment," but failed to mention the obvious motivator, rising oil prices. The article complained that "the Federal Government dragged its feet on alternative energy" without recognizing that taxpayers should be grateful, since venture capitalists are pouring billions into green technologies. Free markets work. Low-priced oil increases greenhouse gases; high-priced oil leads to economically viable alternatives. We tilt at windmills when we ignore this simple economic fact...
...issues. “Many evangelicals think that environmentalism is about pantheism and paganism and new-age religions,” Cizik said. To remove this stigma, the coalition developed a new terminology for talking about the environment. The coalition began “referring to life on this planet as the ‘creation,’” McCarthy said, “because it communicated a sense of deep respect and reverence for all life on this planet. The scientists were quite comfortable with this term, and this facilitated the dialogue...