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...being made to raise U.S. awareness of global warming and to reduce American consumption and demand for energy. Campaigns of varying scale, from student-led initiatives on campuses around the country to national documentaries, are being launched to bring up the issue; major efforts, public and private, are underway to discover alternative sources of energy, and eco-friendly cars are gaining traction in an increasingly environmentally conscious society...
...Discussion is underway at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, but GSAS Dean Allan M. Brandt said he could not yet discuss ideas for the January term in any detail...
...estimates say that up to 6,000 people have already fled their homes in Sadr City while another 150,000 remain essentially trapped in areas locked down by military forces. Al-Sheikhly and Hassan said at present no evacuation of any part of Sadr City is underway. But residents in areas of heavy fighting said Iraqi army troops were urging civilians to move to the shelter of nearby stadiums with announcements over loudspeakers...
...anything that brought in a profit - so along with oil, food, furniture and cars, markets were established in drugs, caviar, trafficked women and counterfeit cigarettes; the networks would bring to market anything that would sell. By the mid-1990s, the U.S. government had recognized that something pretty ugly was underway in the postcommunist world. Jon Winer, the architect of the Clinton Administration's anti-organized-crime strategy, traces its development. "In '93-'94 I started working in law enforcement, knowing that globalization was beginning to have an impact on a whole range of issues," he said. "The paradigm...
...prices at the pump steadily rise. Little wonder that results like these aren't trumpeted these days, but rather carefully explained. Record profit announcements from major energy firms are nothing new; those inflated oil prices have triggered a string of them in recent months. But the slowdown currently underway in the U.K., for instance, "puts a bigger onus on these companies to explain lucidly what exactly that means," says Simon Webley, research director at the Institute of Business Ethics in London, which counts both BP and Shell as supporters. Petrol retailing, for instance, accounts for "very little of their profits...