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...while increasing renewable power 20% and reducing overall energy consumption 20%. Many Western European nations like France, which is currently the head of the E.U., favor the measure, but newer, poorer countries like Poland - and big industrial powers like Germany - are doubtful. If the E.U. can't present a unified front at Brussels, it won't be able to do so in Poznan. "You can see the U.S. and China moving [on climate change]," said Nicholas Stern, a leading British climate economist, at Poznan. "We will destroy or undermine that movement if we go flaky in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Expect from the UN Climate-Change Summit | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...illuminated, with exceptional clarity, the very real possibility that, whatever the truth may be, it may not be what we have been told by the Roman Catholic Church. And this is hardly a minor issue, since the New Testament is the entire basis for all major branches of present-day Christianity. Gerald Andrews, IBIZA, SPAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next for the GOP | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...know the many advantages that unions have obtained for their members through the years. Now is the moment for them to show real leadership and work with the car industry to help get through the present situation. Of course, no one wants to give up a benefit, but why should the American workers who do not have such generous benefits be expected to pay for yours? If you do not work together, the automotive industries of today may follow the many other businesses that went down because of a lack of understanding and cooperation on the part of unions. Which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next for the GOP | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...justice department would do well to remember that what goes around, comes around. The witch hunt against UBS and Credit Suisse in the present economic climate will surely come back to haunt said Justice Department. America, like Germany, should stop whining and sort out its own taxation system so that citizens are not tempted into tax avoidance. Surely, the practice of some of the biggest U.S. banks of selling junk papers to unsuspecting clients, many of whom are pensioners, is far more despicable. The U.S. authorities must be aware that European investors who have been cheated in this fashion might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next for the GOP | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...street but would leave the official designation as Plympton St. “The compromise of not renaming but creating an honorific sign system is a good one,” said councillor Henrietta Davis. “It allows us to keep the past in the present and to honor people of later generations as well.” But councillor David P. Maher said the council needed to examine this proposal more closely with the Cambridge Historical Commission and the local postmaster. For much of the meeting, public speakers—who included several of Halberstam?...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Debates Renaming Street | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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