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...barriers to the creation of a code.“The self-reliance and self-interest of the Harvard student might smother an honor code before it had a chance to grow and thrive,” Melendez wrote.Paula F. Popescu ’07, a transfer student from Wellesley College, agreed with this assessment.“My opinion is that it might not work,” she said. “Because it’s a more stressful environment, more competitive, people would be more likely to cheat here.”Professor of Sociology Michele...
Economists are worried that companies are reaching the limit of being able to transfer energy-price increases to their customers in the form of surcharges. FedEx just raised its fuel surcharge on air deliveries from 12% to 13.5%. Even local pizza parlors, which have been adding a dollar or two to the bill, will reach the push-back point if the upward trend continues. "The pain at the pump this summer is going to be on truckers, taxi drivers, limo drivers, airlines, shipping companies. The question is, Do they pass it on?" says Joe Stanislaw, an independent energy adviser...
...Dave Lesar, CEO of Halliburton Co., the Vice President's former outfit, that the oil-field-service conglomerate started raising prices this month. So have others. Oil-drilling ships are renting for $500,000 a day, double the charge of 18 months ago. "The price of oil is a transfer of wealth from the consumers to the producers," says Brian Gambill, senior analyst of Manning & Napier Advisors, an investment firm. "And the producers transfer their wealth to the oil-service companies because they don't have many of the technological capabilities that the service companies have...
...Geneva, unhcr spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis called the planned change "an unfortunate precedent, being for the first time, to our knowledge, that a country with a fully functioning and credible asylum system, in the absence of anything approximating a mass influx, decides to transfer elsewhere the responsibility to handle claims made actually on the territory of the state." Coming amid tension with Indonesia over the granting of three-year visas to a group of independence activists from West Papua province, the policy shift has brought accusations of appeasement. But it's also raised questions about Australia's commitment...
...impacts of such development will be immense, ranging from the destruction of wildlife habitat to the loss of sediment transfer - the natural movement of soil downstream to create alluvial floodplains that farmers have relied upon for centuries. Thousands of villagers would have to be relocated to make room for dams and reservoirs, and many would still not benefit directly from new power production because most of the electricity would be used in cities, not in rural areas. Environmentalists are also skeptical that the ambitious integrated scheme would ever work. "It's pie-in-the-sky stuff," says Lori Pottinger, director...