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...trade and farm officials haven't adopted the newly negative line on biofuels. Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson insists that the 10% target is still attainable and argues that the E.U.'s biofuels policy has had only a minimal impact on world food prices. Mandelson has tried to shift the blame to the U.S. and the subsidies that are driving up to one third of its maize crop into ethanol production...
...degree candidates would be dissuaded from pursuing their degree by financial strains. But in an addendum this week, the Committee said that their estimation was based on a predicted college enrollment rate and patterns that were incorrect. “Between 1992 and 2004, a major shift in enrollment away from four-year colleges occurred among college-qualified high school students from low- and moderate-income families,” the update said. According to the Committee, increasing college costs, coupled with student aid, made many students choose to attend community college instead of pursuing bachelor’s degrees...
...place that the cyclone spared was Burma's new administrative capital, Naypyidaw, which was carved out of the jungle by the ruling junta in 2005. Even Burmese civil servants who had to move north to the new capital were given no explanation for the shift. But some local journalists in Rangoon speculated that junta leader Than Shwe had been swayed by soothsayers who predicted that civil unrest and a natural disaster would soon strike the city of 5 million. In September, the monk-led protests made the first part of the prophecy come true; the cyclone fulfilled the second half...
...Dalai Lama's stated aim is for Beijing to grant some kind of limited autonomy to Tibet. But achieving that aim - which would allow the 73-year-old to return home after nearly 50 years in exile - will take a tectonic shift in positions on both sides. One consistent condition made by negotiators for the Dalai Lama's Dharamsala-based government in exile, for example, has been that the new autonomous region would include so-called "greater" Tibet, that is, all the traditionally ethnic-Tibetan areas now parts of the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai. In total, that...
...Recent data from the Office of International Programs shows an encouraging shift in student attitudes toward study abroad. Students are becoming less reluctant to leave these hallowed grounds, though there is still a firm contingent that disparages courses taken abroad as less rigorous than those at Harvard. But a few months spent even in a less intense academic environment will still present students with at best a valuable intellectual opportunity, and at very least some time to think. Surely, this is a good thing...