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...valuable as tropical forests may be to the world as a carbon sink, however, they matter even more to the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on them. Some environmentalists fear that a rush to cash in on forest conservation could end up hurting the indigenous people - whether the rubber tappers of Brazil or the forest dwellers of Aceh - that it should benefit most. After all, history has not been good to native people in the developing world who dwell on suddenly valuable land. The key will be to manage avoided deforestation projects properly, to make sure they are truly...
...media--fled to the Jordanian capital, Amman, in the summer of 2006 and are yearning to go back to their leafy street in al-Yarmouk, a middle-class neighborhood in Baghdad. Noora, 28, misses their modest one-story home so much, she is sentimental even about its defects. "The sink in the kitchen is cracked, there are termites everywhere, and sometimes in the summer we can smell our neighbor's toilet from our living room--but I swear I would go back there this minute," she says wistfully. "If we had hope of some kind of life in Baghdad...
...religious beliefs and news of evangelicals declaring their opposition to Mormonism haven’t caused Romney to convert. Rather, he declared in his speech, “Faith in America,” last week, “Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy. If they are right, so be it.” With the Iowa caucuses (where voters are assumed to be sensitive about his Mormonism) weeks away, no spineless politician would say that...
...School’s Center for Public Leadership, said Al Gore ’69 has successfully used the threat of impending disaster to publicize the cause of tackling global warming. “You have to create a burning platform and the sense that we are going to sink,” Gergen said. Turning toward the coming presidential election, the panel took on issues ranging from the “Mike Huckabee phenomenon”—the presidential hopeful’s surprising success in Iowa—to the role of religion in the vote...
...against the Mountain Hawks (5-5), who snagged 13 offensive boards to the Crimson’s four and held the overall rebounding edge, 34-25. Lehigh forward Bryan White posted a game-high 10 rebounds. Additionally, Lehigh enjoyed extra time at the charity stripe, taking 24 shots and sinking 22. Though Harvard only took nine, the Crimson was flawless from the line. “We usually make more [free throws] than the other team takes,” sophomore forward Pat Magnarelli said. “By the end of the game, we were fouling them...