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...Facing this legacy of repression, it is easy to become pessimistic. Some people lament that young people today don't share the idealism of students in the 1980s. But while my generation dreamed lofty goals, they had little foundation. We were like a tall flower on a thin stem. Faced with armed resistance in 1989, the students in Beijing were cut down with tragic ease. Today's young people are more practical, and because of that I am optimistic about their chances of promoting fundamental change. They aren't ready to march in the streets, but they are equally unwilling...
...Life in the Wilderness I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for William Yang to grow up Chinese and gay in Cairns during the 1950s [Sept. 14]. Even today, this sun-kissed city with sultry sea breezes has dark undercurrents of prejudice and homophobia. Just recently I witnessed several of its citizens stage a walkout during a screening of Milk, the biopic about homosexual politician Harvey Milk. Not for nothing is this part of Queensland sometimes referred to as the "Deep North." Garth Clarke, Sydney
...framework set by the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. This time around, the pieces are in place for a major confrontation between the U.S. and China. In the last century, the U.S. and the Soviet Union faced off in a Cold War that saw a massive buildup of nuclear weapons. Today, a new Cold War could develop - and it's all about warming...
...forward requires more than a split-the-difference compromise. The focus needs to shift. Fortunately, such a shift is possible through a more accurate interpretation of the existing agreement. First, it's important to understand that today's framework does not state that China and other developing nations should have no emissions limits ever. It says that such countries should be compensated if they set limits. This is quite different, and opens up the way for a novel agreement that would allow both Washington and Beijing to move simultaneously to break the diplomatic logjam over emissions reductions and to save...
...Stocks, risky. Bonds, safe. Or at least safer. But risk in financial markets has an irritating habit of following investors around. The big rush into bonds - especially high-quality, low-risk bonds such as Treasuries and government-guaranteed mortgage securities - may have created a situation in which most of today's bond investors are bound to lose money. Not 50% losses, as in the stock market, but losses nonetheless. Which for many newcomers to bonds will be a big shock...