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...Amory Lovins - a veteran energy expert and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute - there's a much better green reason to be against nuclear power: economics. Lovins, an environmentalist who is unusually comfortable with numbers, argues in a report released last week that a massive new push for nuclear power doesn't make dollars or cents. In his study, titled "The Nuclear Illusion," he points out that while the red-hot renewable industry - including wind and solar - last year attracted $71 billion in private investment, the nuclear industry attracted nothing. "Wall Street has spoken - nuclear power isn't worth...
...brutally suppressed by the junta, Maung Thura spent several years in and out of jail. He has been harassed by the junta several times since then, most recently last September when he was arrested for daring to bring food to Buddhist monks who led another doomed pro-democracy push...
...mayor, Alfredo Lim, has met with pro-family planning groups and expressed some willingness to collaborate with NGOs. Roberto Ador, executive director of the Family Planning Organization of the Philippines, says the suit comes at an opportune time. He sees it as part of a nascent nationwide push for reproductive rights. "We're hoping this will create a bandwagon effect," he says, "We think this could be noticed by executives at the highest levels of government and church." For Manila's poorest families, that change can't come soon enough...
...broadly, the thinking behind and products from engineering now drive the economic engine of our “flattened” world. Over the past decade, I’ve watched the country of my birth, India, become a land of technology developers, and my adopted home continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible...
...switch that took me away from Harvard and into military service the following year, after all my appeals ran out. Angered by this fate, in February and March I skipped classes, traveling to New Hampshire to campaign for anti-war candidate Senator Eugene McCarthy, who did well enough to push President Johnson out of the race—and bring Bobby Kennedy in. Then in April came the shocking assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., followed by rioting in more than 100 American cities...