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...happily switch to margarine.' TSUYOSHI HASHIMOTO, of Japan's Agriculture Ministry, after the government ordered Japanese dairies to increase butter production by up to 20% because of a shortage of the popular staple...
...don’t think students should have to start under one set of policies and then switch to another one mid-year,” he said...
...result of initiatives like the 1973 Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears, which sharply curtailed bear hunting; he thinks declaring the animal endangered would be a purely political move, a way to achieve global warming policy that eschews the legislative process. It's a classic bait-and-switch maneuver, he says, that would effectively turn the Endangered Species Act into a climate change...
...welcome. China inked deal after deal: a $2.3 billion stake in a Nigerian offshore petroleum field; a $1.5 billion pact to upgrade Ethiopia's telecom system; massive investments in Angola, now China's largest source of oil imports. China won diplomatic victories, too, getting Chad, Malawi and Senegal to switch recognition from Taipei to Beijing in just the past three years. And in 2006, Beijing hosted a triumphant follow-up summit with nearly every African leader...
Amid a week of Earth Day celebrations, the Undergraduate Council endorsed one of the University’s efforts to work toward a greener Harvard. On Sunday night the UC passed a resolution encouraging a switch to 30 percent recycled paper. The legislation joins an ongoing effort by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) for all the University’s departments to start purchasing recycled paper. “Thirty percent recycled paper is great because it’s reducing the amount of trees you have to harvest,” said Philip W. Kreycik...