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Given its scale, Operation Hand in Hand is essentially symbolic, although it may set the stage for bigger and more regular war games in future. "However," says Chellaney, "Sino-Indian relations need to move beyond mere symbolic gestures towards more substantive steps to resolve outstanding issues." As the economic and security architecture of Asia is re-drawn, competition for resources and influence is likely to grow between Asia's second and third biggest economies. But this need not necessarily lead to tension, as Bhaskar points out: "What matters is how China wants to see India in the long...
...employer" who paid people poorly and seemed "to have had little understanding of how his assistants actually made ends meet." (Such notoriety dogged Bawa throughout his career. When, in 1986, a retrospective of his work was organized at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London - the first large-scale Bawa exhibit outside Sri Lanka - the only real attention given was a snarky article in Building Design by London-based Sri Lankan architect Shanti Jayawardene, slamming Bawa as an élitist from a privileged background who catered only to the rich...
...industry in poorer nations, no such mechanism exists for avoided deforestation. That nations are not compensated for protecting their forests has been a huge gap in anti-climate change efforts, and one that has to be resolved if the world is ever to achieve the kind of large-scale reductions in carbon emissions needed to avert catastrophic climate change. "Forests are the elephant in the living room," says Andrew Mitchell, director of the Global Canopy Project and a forestry advocate. "Powerful - but unseen and unrecognized...
...It’s not just about the amount of money but the virtue of scale,” Reeve said. “what that scale buys you is that you can attract [star scientists] and do research you can’t do elsewhere...
...that day.Finally, we stood before the last judgment, a trial we were well prepared to face. House tutors walked around the dining hall, asking questions like “What does your gingerbread house represent?” (the House of God!) and “Is it to scale?” (YES!). Aliza took pains to explain the careful reasoning behind our choice of structure: “We wanted to put the Christian element back into Christmas, extending it even to the possibly Pagan custom of gingerbread house making.” Marianne took pains to explain...