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...country this week and revived a old debate on whether justice is applied equally to foreigners and Nicaraguans, and to rich and poor. The decision to free Volz and not Chamorro seems to have divided people along class lines, with most expatriates and wealthier Nicaraguans applauding the decision. The vast majority of poor Nicaraguans, however, complain that it is another case of the rich getting away with murder...
...course, a market works only if buyers knows they're getting what they're paying for, which requires accurate monitoring of the rate of deforestation. But attempting to track disappearing trees in jungles as vast as the Amazon - where 17 square miles are cut down each day - has long been considered all but impossible. There are also concerns about "leakage," the possibility that if one paid for a project to save trees in one area, logging would simply move to another, unprotected forest - and the saved CO2 would leak. But new space imaging, much of it done by the Japanese...
Richard Rogers' firm is giving Heathrow a big new terminal under a vast, column-free arch...
...rink, surrounded by towering models of candles and a vast canvas featuring a moonlit lake, is a surreal spectacle in the midst of Mexico City's grinding traffic, colonial churches and endless protest marches. To add to the illusion of escape, sweet ballads play through huge speakers as the skaters glide along. Skating is a novel experience for most of those venturing onto the ice, and teams of white-helmeted city workers are constantly rushing to help citizens who have fallen on their faces. "Don't form chains," a supervisor cautions over the public-address system. "Don't smoke...
Harvard has once again vaulted ahead of its peers in eliminating socioeconomic barriers to attending college. This time, the University made three different improvements that totaled to a $22 million per year increase in Harvard College’s financial aid budget. The headliner was a vast increase in aid to middle and upper-middle class students. But just as important are Harvard’s termination of loan-based aid and the exclusion of home equity from aid calculations. The new policy will limit annual tuition payments to no more than 10 percent of income for families making between...