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...outweighed by concerns about privacy, President of Bunker Hill Community College Mary L. Fifield said in her speech. But former MIT president and commission member Charles M. Vest replied that the commission supports the creation of the database and would ensure that the appropriate precautions were taken to protect privacy. Harvard Graduate School of Education student Jessica M. Bibeau, who spoke for three minutes during a public comment period, supported an alternative to the proposed testing. “The purpose of this accountability system should not be to penalize a one-size-fits-all definition of poor performance...
Even measures taken to protect wildlife can cause problems. The hole that created the new spill was located at one of dozens of caribou-crossing sites, where the pipeline is tucked in a culvert that helped shield the leak from view...
...flat expanse between the majestic Brooks Range mountains and the Arctic shore, need more and costlier maintenance than ever. The new spill puts into sharp relief the same question that has stalemated the ANWR debate since the 1980s: Can oil companies focused on their bottom line be trusted to protect Alaska's fragile environment...
...With tensions rising ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's scheduled trip to Washington next month, is it possible that the U.S.-China trade relationship is about to go off the rails? Global markets shrug it off when the French throw a hissy fit and race to protect their vital national yogurt industry, as they did last year, or when pundits pretend it matters which European Union country owns what gas utility. But a trade war between the U.S. and China?with each side taking punitive, protectionist steps to shut out the other's products, services and investments?poses...
...turned] our backs on the very means that we have depended on” by ignoring scientific warnings of environmental threats. Suzuki, a native of Vancouver, British Columbia, concluded by discussing the “Nature Challenge,” 10 steps that individual Canadians can take to protect nature. He is currently working with professors at Harvard to create an American version of the Nature Challenge...