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...first, skeptics also fretted that countries with high rates of deforestation - Indonesia, the Congo, Nigeria - tend to rank high for corruption, making them less-than-reliable partners. "The environmental community developed a distaste for forest offsets, for a lot of valid reasons," says Bill Stanley, director of TNC's Global Climate Change Initiative...
...group was able to struggle the short distance back to their hotel unmolested save for a slight injury to the star's foot. This was clearly a frightening experience, and the poor Li girls are scared of the sea still, but it is by no means among the first rank of tsunami survival stories. Rather than bringing on an epiphany, this relatively clement brush with death simply brought out the spiritual tendencies that Li had been harboring for years. The tsunami liberated him from the desire to make films...
Since 1994, Mass. General and Brigham—which both rank in the top 10 on US News and World Report’s honor roll of hospitals—have been under the management of Partners HealthCare. After bringing together two such prestigious hospitals, Partners became tremendously powerful in swaying insurers, according to the Globe...
...thought it was time we took Harvard students down a notch. People at Harvard are so stuck up about having the top rank in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, and being the oldest university in the United States, and having the largest academic library in the world, and enjoying the most comprehensive financial aid program in the country, and having the wealthiest endowment of any school in history. WHO CARES? Our school provides a kind of education that Harvard’s $37 billion can?...
...able to change anything to avoid disaster," says Sisulu. "He will have to keep ruling through violence." And while he has proved all too willing to unleash his security forces on opposition supporters, at some point the economic collapse could begin to eat into the loyalty of rank-and-file soldiers and policemen...