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...know how much they use in comparison with their neighbors. When that bit of information was added to electric bills in San Marcos, Calif., heavy users quickly lowered their consumption, even though no one had asked them to. To borrow a term from behavioral economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein, the good people of San Marcos had been nudged...
...Zimbabwe's regeneration, says Michelle Gavin, Adjunct Scholar on Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations, "would have to be an all-hands-on-deck effort." International financial institutions and donors, which ended their involvement to protest the regime's corruption and human rights abuses, would be likely to step in with emergency programs to bring Zimbabwe back from the brink. And already international investors sense a bargain in the making. LonZim, an investment fund set up by the Lonrho mining group last December, has already raised $65 million to invest in Zimbabwe. "We're very bullish that Zimbabwe...
...labor-related constraints of HUDS certainly are of concern, the health and well-being of the numerous students on campus should not have gone so neglected. After all the house dining halls closed on Friday, March 21, a $35 billion institution became home to possibly hundreds barren bellies and scholar-scavengers. A surprising number of undergraduates are compelled to stay for a wide variety of reasons, all of which call for a daily meal plan. First, many seniors are forced linger over break in order to complete theses. The final deadlines for many departments fall after the break, concentrators often...
...biofuels created from waste products that don't gobble up land have real potential, but even cellulosic ethanol increases overall emissions when its plant source is grown on good cropland. "People don't want to believe renewable fuels could be bad," says the lead author, Tim Searchinger, a Princeton scholar and former Environmental Defense attorney. "But when you realize we're tearing down rain forests that store loads of carbon to grow crops that store much less carbon, it becomes obvious...
...This was expected. It was just a matter of timing," said Vali Nasr, Tufts University scholar and author of the bestselling book, The Shi'a Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future. "The ceasefire and the surge allowed everyone to regroup and rearm. There is still the Shi'a-Sunni conflict. There is still the Sadr-Badr conflict. The surge and the ceasefire merely kept them apart, but there has never been a real political settlement," he said. "No, the big battle for Iraq hasn't been fought yet. The future of Iraq has not been determined." Nasr...