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Lawrence said has already begun to work withYellen and Blank in areas such as internationaleconomics, international trade, finance and theenvironment, including researching issues like howto persuade developing countries to activelycounteract greenhouse gases.
"The dinner went well. Fern thought I couldhave been more enthusiastic, but I thought I waspretty enthusiastic," Nesson says, adding thatthe questions at dinner aimed to determine "if wewere authoritarian types or not, if we'd be eatingthere or not, if we were going to make theenvironment flower."
Despite these disadvantages, the project teamhopes that the new index will do for theenvironment what the GNP does for politics andeconomics.
Fifty-five percent said the job market is "veryimportant," while 53 percent placed the abortionissue on that level. Health care and theenvironment were rated "very important" by only 45and 43 percent of students, respectively.
Still, Zimmerman said the boat would affect theenvironment positively, with few drawbacks. "Anytime you can get people out of single occupancyvehicles...you've just done something good for theenvironment," he said.