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...covering a breaking crisis isn't easy, especially for book publishers, as editors call for rewrites or dramatic changes in the publishing lag time. "There seems to be two approaches: do it quickly or wait and take the longer-term view," says Will Weisser, associate publisher of Portfolio, a Penguin imprint, who says most of their business authors are being asked to expedite books already under way. One is Eric Janszen, whose The Post Catastrophe Economy, a historical account of the economy and where it is headed, was supposed to be published in August 2009. With the crisis deepening, Portfolio...
...dealt with immediately and ambitiously. On the other side is the public, which increasingly believes that climate change is real and worries about it, but which rarely ranks it as a high priority. A 2007 survey by the U.N. Development Programme found that 54% of Americans advocate taking a "wait and see" approach to climate-change action - holding off on the deep and rapid cuts in global warming that would immediately impact their lives. (And it's not just SUV-driving Americans who take this position - similar majorities were found in Russia, China and India.) As a result, we have...
...Wait a second. Do my eyes deceive me? It looks a little foggy, but no, it’s really apparent, if you look it’s not so foggy at all, it’s really clear, oh, no, look at this: Harvard’s fall sports’ teams are surpassing our wildest imaginations...
...soccer improved to 8-3 this season, 4-0 in the Ancient Eight. It disposed of No. 24 Brown 4-1 last Saturday, and during its current five-game winning streak, it has outscored its opponents 12-1. Let me say that again, 90 percent of the time. Wait, I mean...
...Bush Administration's so-called peace road map was already falling to pieces, and the Palestinians are now saying that they might as well go home and wait for Israeli elections to finish and for a new prime minister to take charge. By then, Bush will have packed his bags and left the White House, leaving the challenge to either President McCain or Obama...