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...Face it: there's no one fuel panacea, and in the final analysis, humans will have to scale back their numbers in order to live within a finite fossil- (or even renewable-) fuel world. And good luck with that. William L. Seavey, Cambria, California...
...China shows few signs of wavering on a large scale, even in the face of renewed global media attention to its domestic human rights record and connection to abuses in Tibet, Burma, Zimbabwe, and Sudan...
...what should be done? Here are three steps to ease the current crisis and avert the potential for a global disaster. The first is to scale-up the dramatic success of Malawi, a famine-prone country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and high-yield seeds. Malawi's harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion in all. Such a fund could fight hunger as effectively...
...decide not to run for President? -Brian Lemieux, Los AngelesThe scale of solutions we need for the next 20 years is so enormous that I could not both do what I'm doing and run for President. I may someday run, but I think my primary contribution is to go to the root of problems, to try to understand the scale of change we need...
...that forced Telenor abroad, in search of growth to offset stiffening domestic competition. But squared up against the region's big boys - Telefónica, say, or Deutsche Telekom - Telenor was too small to make much headway in established European markets. It "never had the firepower to go for scale in Europe along the lines pursued by others," says Martin Mabbutt, telecoms analyst at financial services group Nomura in London...