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...diplomats at the U.N. climate conference last week made little progress on hammering out the successor to Kyoto.) If there is money to be spent on preparing the world for the health impacts of climate change, the priority should be adapting our public health system to a warmer world, versus spending on carbon mitigation. Global warming to some degree will be inevitable - but human suffering needn't be, if we're smart enough to prepare...
...University Hall and students can bicker endlessly about philosophies of higher education and how much paternalism is required to run a college. I am not suggesting that Harvard should be managed completely by students’ desires and town halls. But on the spectrum of including students versus excluding us, respecting us versus patronizing us, University Hall is a long ways away from treating students like the reasonable, non-violent quasi-adults that...
...made up of over 1 million smaller numbers; that every one of the 1 million service members who have fought in Iraq has his or her own personal numbers. Over 1 million 8's and 3's. When you are evaluating the price of the war, weighing potential rewards versus cost in blood and treasure, I would ask you to consider what is worth the lives of three of your loved ones? Or eight? Or more? It would be a tragedy for my 8 and 3 to have died without us being able to complete our mission, but it maybe...
...vice chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. To lay people off, "you need to pay a huge amount in compensation." Nor is there any relief from surging raw-materials costs. And, slowly but surely, the renminbi, China's currency, continues to strengthen - it's now 12% higher versus the U.S. dollar than it was 18 months ago - making China's exports more expensive worldwide...
...Despite fears that the credit-card industry is poised to become the next subprime debacle, it is still highly profitable. "All the players are making money in the credit-card business," notes Moshe Orenbuch, a managing director at Credit Suisse. (Visa recently reported $434 million in quarterly profits versus $304 million for rival MasterCard...