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...pollution by introducing more efficient heating stoves in developing countries and turning to solar power and other clean sources of energy. "We need sustainable growth in every city in this world," says Edwin Lau Che Feng, director of the environmental group Friends of the Earth in Hong Kong. "Richer countries have a responsibility to transfer cleaner technology to developing nations and help them reduce emissions because developing nations are the world's factory today...
Over many desperate years, they have tried to flee to the comparatively richer climes of Southeast Asia. Waves of Rohingya migrants routinely take to the sea from the marshlands and jungle of eastern Bangladesh, often with the help of people smugglers who charge extortionate rates for their services. One report says Thai authorities alone picked up 4,886 Rohingya in an unspecified period from...
...frigid Northeastern U.S., as I do - to remain convinced that global warming will be such a bad thing. Beyond the fact that people prefer warmth to cold, there's a reason the world's population is clustered in the Tropics and subtropics: warmer climates usually mean longer and richer growing seasons. So it's easy to imagine that on a warmer globe, the damage inflicted by more frequent and severe heat waves would be balanced by the agricultural benefits of warmer temperatures...
...drawn acclaim for bridging ideological divides among the faculty, poaching several renowned professors from rival law schools, and ushering in a slew of student-oriented reforms.University President Drew G. Faust lauded Kagan in an e-mailed statement, saying that because of her, “the student experience is richer, the curriculum fresher, and the school continues to enhance its worldwide leadership in legal education and scholarship.”NOT A QUESTION OF EXPERIENCEThough Kagan has never appeared before the Supreme Court, several law professors said that they expected her to ease into the new role after spending over...
University President Drew G. Faust lauded Kagan in an e-mailed statement, saying that because of her, "the student experience is richer, the curriculum fresher, and the school continues to enhance its worldwide leadership in legal education and scholarship...