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...there are still many unanswered questions as to how the plan can restore confidence. And for consumers, the effect of the latest move will be hard to gauge, since it is designed merely to ease the sting of the coming economic recession - meaning there will still be job losses, bank closures and business failures...
...carbon price is passed, less attractive. Michael Liebreich, the chairman of the research group New Energy Finance, argued in a recent briefing that the financial crisis might make governments less willing to extend preferential subsidies and incentives for clean power, as a sinking economy makes high energy prices sting a little more. "In country after country, the web of support mechanisms for clean energy is now under review," he wrote...
...friendship that grew out of the experience of making that film and The Sting four years later had its genesis in the fact that although there was an age difference, we both came from a tradition of theater and live TV. We were respectful of craft and focused on digging into the characters we were going to play. Both of us were fundamentally American actors, with the qualities and virtues that characterize American actors: irreverence, playing on the other's flaws for fun, one-upmanship - but always with an underlying affection. Those were also at the core of our relationship...
...what Pennsylvania's state beekeeper Dennis vanEngelsdorp found when he examined victims of CCD: "[W]hat he saw looked like an infinitesimal World War I battlefield. Everywhere was shiny, pockmarked ruin. The bees' guts, which should have been white, were stippled brown with infection. Their sting glands had blackened - a melanization last reported fifty years ago in connection with rare fungal infections. VanEngelsdorp found deformed wing virus, black queen cell virus, and many more. The bees didn't have one disease. They had them...
...independent monitoring, and they must state that Russia's continued membership in the G-8 and future entry into the WTO will turn on its peaceful resolution of regional disputes. The upside of Russia's preoccupation with lost status is that its exclusion from such élite organizations would sting. Russia has flexed its resurgent muscles at great human cost. Now it must be convinced that aggression does not restore honor; it soils...