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...rally over the past week enjoyed by the rest of the Asian markets. "India didn't get a share of that bounce." In the long term, he says, investors may simply start thinking of India as a place where terror attacks happen regularly and price its market accordingly. "Investors tend to get used...
...first, skeptics also fretted that countries with high rates of deforestation - Indonesia, the Congo, Nigeria - tend to rank high for corruption, making them less-than-reliable partners. "The environmental community developed a distaste for forest offsets, for a lot of valid reasons," says Bill Stanley, director of TNC's Global Climate Change Initiative...
More than a decade after Kyoto was signed, however, that opposition has eased. (The holdouts, like Greenpeace, tend to be skeptical of market-based solutions to climate change in general, not just REDD.) That's partly thanks to a better understanding that "if deforestation is 20% of the problem, it should be 20% of the solution," according to Benoit Bosquet, team leader of the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, which helps developing countries prepare for REDD projects. Tree-spotting has improved; Japan's alos satellite uses cloud-penetrating radar to detect deforestation even in the rainy Amazon, making...
Carrie Fisher is an anomaly in Hollywood: a demonstrably clever celebrity. (I say demonstrably because plenty of celebrities are extremely clever; they just tend to keep it to themselves.) Fisher is the author of four novels, several screenplays and two autobiographical one-woman shows. Now she's written a memoir, or rather adapted it from her show of the same name, Wishful Drinking (Simon & Schuster; 163 pages...
Indeed, the causes of physical illness and death among psychiatric patients are much the same as those in other groups - cigarette smoking, obesity, diabetes - and are treatable. The problem is that people with serious mental illness tend to be low on the socioeconomic totem pole and often don't get the best available health care. Frequently, their own doctors pay little heed to their patients' physical health. "Medical doctors think, 'Well, they're crazy,' so they don't take their concerns seriously," says Wendy Brennan, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in New York City. "Their...