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...crop has been better able to cope. Fifty-five percent of market leaders - according to sales figures - grew revenues in 2008, the authors note - a significant leap from the 40% of second and third-place companies that notched gains. That may be the least surprising element of this short, scary report. Shrewd management was likely how they reached the top in the first place...
...Developing countries like China pushed wealthier nations to accept tough short-term carbon emission targets, demanding cuts of at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2020. But developed nations demurred, refusing to commit to new cuts now, even though their existing commitments would lead to a reduction of only 4% to 14% below 1990 levels...
...raises the question: does the footage of caskets being pulled from cargo jets have the same effect that it once did? It will always be a painful, upsetting sight for those who see it, but perhaps it no longer can deeply touch a people who seem unmoved by anything short of a gun pressed to their head.If it can’t truly have the effect of promoting public awareness anymore, then what does lifting the ban really prove? On one hand, I think there has been a populist (and justified) desire to reverse many of the restrictions on freedom...
...faint idea of the social good that reading does. It acculturates an individual to discourse. To read fiction is to be exposed to a polyphony of voices, to engage with a multitude of perspectives, to imaginatively interact with places and people beyond one’s lived experience. In short (to put it reductively and to make a reductive argument in response to what I see as your own), reading equips its practitioner with the tools of democracy: a sense of curiosity, an ability to imagine beyond one’s own isolated experience, and a respect for language...
...house.” Somewhat ironically, Toback awards Tyson a gaze he has no desire to direct toward himself. “I don’t give a fuck,” Toback says, when asked about his own image. “Life is too short to worry about your enemies or the people who don’t understand you.”“Tyson” stemmed from the mutual understanding between Toback and Tyson of the multiplicity of voices within the mind. This is “madness” rather than schizophrenia...