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...present state. Nigel Pike Phang Nga, Thailand It is clear that most present-day global warming is a consequence of the developed world, which keeps vomiting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. For the developing world (especially India and China), any project to reduce its environmental impact on a large scale will be ambitious and costly. But the ambition is definitely there. There should be a new Kyoto-style agreement that would have the developed world, especially the U.S., finance such a project. That way the developed world would pay compensation for the harm it has done to the environment...
...million by 2050, while Uganda's 29 million people will grow to 127 million in the same period - are adding to problems like hunger and soil erosion. Building dams to power factories and houses, say the dams' advocates, is a quicker way to reduce poverty than pursuing small-scale geothermal or solar projects, or keeping the river for tourists. "We value the [Bujagali] falls, but development is about making options and choices," says Kahangire from his office overlooking Lake Victoria in Entebbe, Uganda. Some in the rich world agree. In his 2004 book, The World's Banker, on former World...
...before the first cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois on the edge of Paris. "What we're doing is massive: attacking decades-old problems in housing, unemployment, education, exclusion - you name it!" adds the Minister. Borloo calls his policy package a "Marshall Plan for the banlieues," and its scale and ambition almost justify the bombast. Since joining the government in 2002, his efforts have mobilized over €35 billion in funding to rebuild or renovate France's most troubled housing projects. In 2005 alone, ground was broken for construction of over 340,000 new and restored housing units...
...export market, but many of the companies locating in the north think that, too, may be changing quickly. Most of the companies that have placed factories in the north harbor big plans of sending their finished products, from bathroom fixtures to digital cameras, to the mainland. On a small scale, that's already happening. Canon's Vietnam general director, Sachio Kageyama, says the company last year started exporting printers produced in the Thang Long industrial park to China. In January, a new highway was completed from Hanoi to the Chinese border, cutting the travel time to the Chinese industrial city...
...stunning Roman, Byzantine and early Christian mosaics (think of “Alexander at Issus,” or Ravanna’s splendid ceilings), to the Impressionistic dabs of paint employed by Monet and the Pointillism of Seurat and Signac. Chuck Close became famous for his large-scale portraits, using a grid of abstract pixels to create the larger picture.Smuts’s monochromatic panels recall all this, and also consciously take a jab at the monochromatic paintings of the early minimalists. For Smuts, each tessera is important in its individuality, and its contrast to the whole.The time...