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...environmental policy in the United States, Dimas said he has high hopes for the upcoming years. He has spoken with Barack Obama’s advisers and directly with John McCain, and both camps promised to work with Europe in the future to focus on the environment. His Boston visit also cemented his belief that environmental issues are rapidly gaining ground in the United States. “Today I have heard views expressed from senators, professors, students and NGOs,” Dimas said at a reception at the Greek Consulate following the talk. “I found...
...have influenza during the same seasons. Turns out that flu shots seemed not to make much difference: Kids who got immunized did not get the flu at lower rates than unvaccinated kids. In fact, the immunized youngsters were just as likely to be hospitalized or to visit the doctor as kids who never received the vaccine...
...Ahmadinejad against homosexuals, Jews, Kurds, Baha’i, Israelis, academics, Americans, and weapons inspectors have not been adequately appalling, his regime’s latest public enemy number one—women—should shake us to the core. While media coverage of Ahmadenejad’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly last week was primarily focused on the dangers posed to America and to the world by a nuclear Iran, it behooves us to remove ourselves from this America-centric perspective and consider the actual suffering of those already under his fanatic and menacing rule...
...American empire,” Ahmadinejad does himself the benefit of deflecting attention away from his increasingly horrifying treatment of his own people. In a report by Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released last week in order to coincide with his visit, the groups remind us that “reaching a resolution of the nuclear standoff should not come at the expense of attention to the human rights crisis in Iran.” They then provide a shocking chronicle of the extent to which Ahmadinejad—who began...
...They will be allowed to visit the author of their economics textbook, Professor Mankiw, during his office hours,” Predescu said. “They’re very excited...