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...senior people," says Webley. "That is far from the case." The suggestion is that Shell and BP's profits will be plowed back into exploration rather than into, say, London's real estate market, which has been goosed up for years by bonuses from the now hurting financial sector. It's an important distinction, but it may not be enough to placate everyone...
...society as a whole,” he said. Last month, the Law School announced its new Public Service Initiative, which eliminates tuition for third-year law students, beginning with the Class of 2011, who commit to spending five years in either public-interest law or the public sector...
...After college, only a small portion of Harvard grads continue the service or political work of their time at school—most head to some sector of the business world, while others head to law, medical, or other graduate schools. Maybe they will send some money to help AIDS in Africa or make a phone call for Darfur, but will they care about their neighborhood meetings? Will they think about who is making and enforcing the possibly discriminatory laws in their towns and cities, or who sets up budgets for inner-city versus suburban public schools...
...another barrier: CCS requires storage of liquefied CO2 in natural geological reservoirs, which don’t exist in New England. Pipelining liquefied CO2 out-of-state would be an infrastructural and financial challenge. Until technological improvements or a geological miracle significantly lowers the cost of CCS, both private-sector and public opinion will resist its implementation, even in green-minded Massachusetts. And in the meantime, gasification plants will be spewing CO2 into the atmosphere under the aegis of a “renewable energy” bill.Should legislators choose to incentivize gasification, the state could impose CCS directly...
Asia's less developed cell-phone markets soon became targets. The company launched into Bangladesh's fledgling sector in 1997 convinced, says Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Telenor's CEO, that "mobile communications are as important in this kind of society as in Scandinavia." Once Grameenphone, its business in Bangladesh, was up and running, Telenor sought fresh openings in markets offering rapid growth, and gradually accrued controlling stakes in local Thai and Malaysian operators. When Pakistan invited bids for a license to operate from 2005, Telenor jumped at the chance...