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...company was also always careful to maintain its Japanese roots. Notwithstanding the attractions of low-cost labor elsewhere, Sony continued to source products in a Japan that had-by virtue of the success of the company and others like it-become one of the most expensive places on the planet to do business. In 1989, at the height of Japan-bashing in the U.S., Morita even co-authored a defiantly nationalistic tome-The Japan That Can Say No-with Shintaro Ishihara, now the governor of Tokyo, who believes that Japan should stand up to Washington both militarily and economically...
...Europe is doing and the buying and selling of carbon dioxide?emissions allowances. Not a word about the much larger emissions problem caused by other parts of the world, especially the U.S., which among other nations declined to participate in the efforts of the Kyoto accord to save the planet. Dirk Roggeveen Voorburg, the Netherlands The Kyoto accord is not about saving the earth. It is about saving humankind for a while longer before accelerated climate change wipes out the not-very-wise Homo sapiens. If we were really smart, we would take into account our track record of raping...
...great song called “Not Guilty”—because he’s my roommate. I listened to Another Side of Bob Dylan yesterday while I was trying to write a paper. The Basement Tapes and Planet Waves. A little bit of Jamiroquai, especially “Canned Heat,” the song from Napoleon Dynamite. And a bluegrass group from North Carolina called Sons of Ralph on their album Grab a Root and Growl has an electric version of a song called “Will You Be My Salty Dog?...
...Veggie Planet, the adjoining café is an added bonus. Obviously, vegetarians and vegans should be excited about the surprisingly good meat-free fare, but the food—especially the pizzas—has a solid reputation among omnivores as well...
Sachs, 50, has been around the planet more times than a space station to promote the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, to raise annual aid to 0.7 percent of GNP of the donor countries (starting with an extra $70 billion per year as of 2006), in order to halve poverty by 2015. He's a special adviser to Annan while pursuing a day job as head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, which reflects his philosophy as an economist: that sustainable development can be achieved only through an approach that considers everything from geography to infrastructure to family structure. "Right...