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...This gloomy assessment comes from the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based organization representing the 26 rich, gas-guzzling member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The agency is not known for alarmist warnings, and its World Energy Outlook is typically viewed by policy wonks as a solid indicator of global energy supplies. In a marked change from its traditionally bland, measured tones, the IEA's 2007 report says governments need to make urgent, bold decisions on energy policy, or risk massive environmental and energy-supply crises within two decades - crises and shortages that could spark...
...first part of this lack is due in part to something that is quite good about Harvard: the place is no longer a rich, white boys’ club. Harvard, in the trend of colleges nationally, is increasingly diverse, particularly socioeconomically. Thanks to programs such as HFAI, Harvard draws from a much wider cross-section of applicants than it once...
...region. Turkey's biggest fear is that Iraqi Kurds are intent on establishing a separate Kurdish state on their border, which might encourage Turkey's Kurdish minority to attempt to secede. That concern is growing ahead of a planned referendum in Iraq on control over the oil rich region of Kirkuk, a region that Iraqi Kurds claim as their own and control over which would sharply increase their economic and political clout...
...easy to snort at the fate of a very rich man being handed a $161.5 million parting gift, or to find satisfaction in his dramatic comeuppance. O'Neal's tendency to play golf by himself has been held up time and again as a sign of a disconnected and friendless manager who would eventually have been undone anyway...
Short on inspiration for the business startup that will make you rich? Papelbon’s advice will surely bring out your inner Mark Zuckerberg: “The voices in my head. It just kind of comes to you. That’s it.” And if inspiration is slow in coming, have some patience; as Manny says, “We don’t want to eat the cake before your birthday...