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...until it perfects the technology to capture and store the CO2 its power plants emit. Lieberman and Warner won't delay those cuts (Clinton, Obama and McCain don't want to either), but they want coal to survive, so their bill gives the industry $235 billion for R&D over the next 20 years. Even so, politicians who represent what's left of America's coal-fired industrial heartland aren't rushing to support the bill during hard economic times. To bring them around, the bill's supporters must make the case that cap and trade's costs are dwarfed...
Their most welcome suggestion is to make small- and medium-size business a priority, and they take Latin America to task for doing less than 3% of the world's R&D spending while Asia accounts for more than a third of it. If more of the region's leaders had taken counsel like this a decade ago, Hugo Chávez and the Latin left might not have such a large, impoverished crowd to play to today. Whether or not this is the century of the Americas, these books offer a guide to how Latin America can enter...
...books has changed my life, several times, changed my mind about things, and changed the way I behave. You recognize your own behavior and your own thought patterns in a book, and you realize you must change your life.—Interview conducted, condensed, and edited by Patrick R. Chesnut.—Staff writer Patrick R. Chesnut can be reached at pchesnut@fas.harvard.edu...
...Every year, the Administrative Board has a dinner at the end of the year, and he was always right in the middle of it, making the annual dinner the most fun it could be,” Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said. “He had a really fabulous sense of humor...
...Urban Studies, to become her adviser.“Many professors in grad schools do not take you seriously.” she says. “I was really lucky.” JUMPING THROUGH HOOPSMost applicants, however, don’t have it so easy. Adam R. Singerman ’08, a special concentrator in Linguistics and the Languages of the Americas, knocked on several doors to find his sponsor and future adviser, archaeology professor Gary Urton. Similarly, Alison H. Rich ’09, a special concentrator in Dramatic Arts, found prospective advisers busy with other...