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...professor at Wageningen University and Research Center. Vellinga calculates that to maintain this higher level of protection, the Netherlands would have to commit about 0.2% of its GDP annually--some $1.3 billion. The Dutch are straightforward about making adaptation to global warming a high priority. The alternative is the prospect of losing its coastal cities altogether. ("We Are Here to Stay" is the accompanying public slogan.) "We want foreign visitors and investment to keep coming to the Netherlands," Vellinga says, "so we must assure them this will remain a safe place...
...With a new Congress in place, McCain and Lieberman will try again. This time they will face competition from Senators Jeff Bingaman and Arlen Specter, whose version would set higher caps and more gradual reductions. "The McCain-Lieberman proposal was very credible," Bingaman says. "[But] this draft has more prospect of actually being adopted." Yet another cap-and-trade bill will probably come out of Boxer's committee, and more bills still will be considered in the House of Representatives...
...been driving all day and were just two hours outside Ndjamena, where we could finally be rid of each other, when Bishaq pulled off the road in the village of Bokoro, and announced that it was 6 p.m., and company rules stated he could drive no further. The prospect of one more day with Bishaq was more than I could bear: I shouted at him in the street, calling him "thief," "liar" and much, much worse. I demanded he give me the keys, saying I would drive if he was too tired to continue. And, convinced that Bishaq's catalogue...
...this fall. For Democrats, who hoped to hang onto the seat in an increasingly Red State, Blanco's announcement blew the race wide open. If the news was disheartening for her supporters and her party, it was perhaps more dismaying to her political enemies, who were clearly relishing the prospect of an all-out rout as the G.O.P. planned a run against her Katrina record...
...means that everyone…can release themselves from being a victim and begin to take control of their life’s destiny.” The book offers salvation on a variety of fronts—love, weight, and friendship. Yet the prospect of moving ahead financially is what seems to entice most readers...