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Fuzzy targets won't be enough to stem the tide of climate change, however. "Voluntary agreements aren't bad, but unless you have hard caps and trade, you can't get the investment going for real innovation," says Annie Petsonk, international counsel for Environmental Defense. For that to happen, voters will have to show that they'll support politicians who support emissions caps. That's long been the case in Western Europe, and it's slowly happening in laggards like Australia and the U.S as well. Howard's sudden conversion on climate change is at least partially driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the World Improve on Kyoto? | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

Those “adult” stem cells are taken from the umbilical cord immediately after birth, and have been put forth by many embryonic stem cell opponents as a way to avoid destroying embryos...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Disgraced Scientist Gets Redemptive Discovery | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

Fumento added that even stem cell experts say that embryonic stem cell research may not yield clinic applications for many years...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Disgraced Scientist Gets Redemptive Discovery | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...video clip on the Boston Children’s Hospital Web site, Daley said that each method of obtaining stem cells has its particular uses and that in some cases, embryonic stem cells may be the only viable option...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Disgraced Scientist Gets Redemptive Discovery | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

...President Bush political cover when, as expected, he vetoes a $21 billion federal water preservation bill that Congress passed last week, which includes almost $2 billion more for Everglades restoration. (Bush feels the measure is too expensive.) Add to that the Bush Administration's reputation - from global warming to stem cell research - for ignoring if not rewriting science in favor of its conservative and pro-business agenda, and it's no surprise that Democrats and environmentalists are so upset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Bush Abandoned the Everglades? | 8/10/2007 | See Source »

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