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There are other side effects as well. Melillo's paper points out that if biofuels scale up rapidly, they could end up displacing cropland and pasture, which would impact global food supplies and increase land-based carbon emissions. Melillo found that if biofuels were linked to a global policy to stabilize carbon concentrations in the atmosphere at 550 parts per million - a modest goal - we would need more land for biofuel production by the end of the 21st century than is currently used for all food crops. Worse, all the fertilizer needed to grow those bioenergy crops would increase emissions...
...We’re focusing very intensively on where we can reduce the scale and pacing of our capital projects to match our new resources,” said Dan Shore, Harvard’s chief financial officer, in an interview last Friday. But he noted that even a “shrunken down” series of capital expenditures would remain sizable simply due to the University’s large size, and that as a result, “at some point during the next year or so we could be going to market again [for more debt...
...spends $60 billion a year waging war in Afghanistan, and, depending on whose estimates you trust, a surge would cost between $10 and $40 billion all by itself. In 2008, there were 32,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan; now there are around 68,000. A troop surge on the scale that General Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is asking for would push us past the 100,000 mark in a war that has been going on for longer than America fought in the Civil War and World War II combined...
...have to be able to take some sizable losses. Budget cuts have hit athletic departments hard across the country, and we don’t have it as bad as some. Schools are experiencing hikes in ticket prices, changes in facilities and fields, and most importantly, large-scale layoffs and salary reductions...
Call it China's trial of the 21st century. Not since Mao Zedong's wife and her fellow members of the reviled Gang of Four were tried in 1980 has a courtroom trial so captured the attention of the nation. For one thing, there's the sheer scale of the operation that brought more than 30 defendants to court this week: a crackdown on the alliance of criminal gangs and their corrupt official collaborators who have terrorized a huge metropolis for years. Thousands of suspects were questioned, some 1,500 were arrested, bribes in the tens of millions of renminbi...