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...That's a marked departure from the Bush Administration, which sought to marginalize global diplomacy on carbon emissions. With a major U.N. summit on global warming just 10 months away in Copenhagen, the current shift is necessary if the U.S. is to regain leadership on climate issues and work toward an equitable international deal on reducing carbon emissions. "The U.S. is the only nation that can lead the world, and this is the most serious challenge the world has faced," said Gore...
...climate-change summits, are in favor of pushing for a new global deal on carbon, but even Republicans seemed to grasp Gore's message. Senator Corker of Tennessee, who has emerged as one of the more thoughtful GOP voices on energy, told Gore he could see the shift coming on climate. "We are now firing with real bullets," said Corker. "My sense is, this year something will really occur...
...Updike's hallmark was his glittering, gloriously vivid style. His talent for spotting detail, for capturing in prose the slightest shift in light or in a character's mood was unmatched. It was not the most fashionable of gifts. While his contemporaries practiced the rock-ribbed realism of Hemingway and Carver or the high-concept contraptions of the metafictionists, Updike conducted his pursuit of eloquence and wit almost alone. Ironically, it was sometimes held against him, and he was tagged a lightweight. (See the top 10 fiction books...
Shortly after the European Management Forum was founded, world events began to shift the focus of the annual meetings to encompass more global issues. The collapse of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange system, which pegged the value of foreign currencies to the US dollar, and the Arab-Israeli War in 1973 introduced political and economic elements to the Davos discussions, and political leaders joined the European businessmen at the following meeting in January 1974. By 1976, membership in the forum was extended to the "1,000 leading companies of the world...
...marriage was as big an issue in the presidential campaign as it has been in the past. The referendum in California certainly made it a huge post-election issue. It's still a very divisive issue in churches on the left and the right. But here's where the shift is taking place: young evangelicals and Catholics don't see gay marriage as a life issue. They have gay friends and colleagues and they don't see homosexuality as the greatest threat to marriage and family. Now, they care about marriage and family - this generation is really challenging the hook...