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...anti-Americanism has grown in a post-9/11 world, firms that teach good manners to U.S. businesspeople have flourished. A once fledgling industry of protocol schools and etiquette consultants now serves a growing list of corporate clients that pay $10,000 or more a day to learn the cultural sensitivities of far-flung regions. "Increasingly, it's about building relationships, something American businesses are just beginning to understand," says Jacqueline Whitmore, director of the Protocol School of Palm Beach, Fla., who has seen her business triple in the past three years. Faux pas often begin, etiquette experts say, with...
...Times in the Arctic "Meltdown!" [Nov. 22], your article on the impact of global warming in the Arctic, was especially timely in the wake of the re-election of Bush, who so arrogantly dismissed the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is a nation of selfish materialists who refuse to be good stewards of the earth, and we deserve every abuse Mother Nature heaps upon us. It's just too bad the rest of the world has to suffer with us. Cheryl Clark Calera, Oklahoma...
...Meltdown!" [Nov 22], your article on the impact of global warming in the Arctic, was especially timely in the wake of the re-election of Bush, who so arrogantly dismissed the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is a nation of selfish materialists who refuse to be good stewards of the earth, and we deserve every abuse Mother Nature heaps upon us. It's just too bad the rest of the world has to suffer with...
...panel discussion, titled “Climate Change: The Way Forward” and moderated by Daniel P. Schrag, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, comes only weeks after Russia ratified the Kyoto Protocol and a month after the release of a significant scientific report warning about the effects of global warming on the Arctic...
...remarks on the subject, McElroy, a leading scientist in the study of climate change, said that the Kyoto Protocol was an ineffective solution to the threat of global warming. He said that even the countries who agreed to the treaty have not been able to meet the reduced levels of greenhouse emissions. “Despite the rhetoric, we’re not doing a very good job in Europe or in other countries to meet the challenge,” he said...