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...However, I was disappointed to see Virgin tycoon Richard Branson alongside real environmental heroes such as Gaia theorist James Lovelock and Green Belt Movement co-founder Wangari Maathai. Although the writer defended Branson's inclusion, I am not convinced. I acknowledge that he is giving a large sum of money to scientific research for developing clean fuels, and this will certainly help our fight. But his environmental efforts are akin to offsetting long-haul flights by planting trees to ease his conscience. Do his actions really tackle the root issue, or do they just cover over it with a thin...
...that the data can teach us, keep in mind that the nature of a ranking masks certain economic realities of a globalized world. The ability of countries to raise their citizens' standard of living is not a zero-sum game. Nearly 200 years ago, Ricardo gave a detailed lesson about comparative advantage: when two economies interact, they both can benefit even if one is more advanced across the board. That's why South Korea invests in North Korea, which is in some respects an economic black hole. At the end of the day, both can be winners...
Among Grassley's questions to Dollar was one about a gift of $500,000 to Copeland. Dollar told TIME that he made a gift but said the sum was not that high. He and the Copelands claim to be tax-compliant. Hinn and Long did not respond by press time. White's ministry says to the best of its knowledge it complies with all tax codes. Meyer posted a 2007 IRS letter confirming tax-exempt status...
...eldest sister died of cancer; three years later, his father died from complications after surgery. But the accidental death in 1982 of his second sister, who had attended medical school with him, was most painful. "That was somehow unreal," he recalls. "When I was young, I thought that the sum of mishappenings in our lives is constant, that there must be some kind of balancing justice...
...nationwide transport strike Wednesday will look like just another in a long line of work stoppages by French workers and their notoriously militant labor unions. Here on Planet France, however, those protests over proposed pension cutbacks are being viewed as the first major battle in a wider zero-sum war - the outcome of which will determine the fate of President Nicolas Sarkozy's vast reform program...