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...Lewis Capital Markets in New York. But in reality, some OPEC leaders simply ignore their quotas, because they need every penny they can earn from oil. Among the bad boys: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose oil revenues offset the impact from Western sanctions and help finance their vote-getting social programs. Angolan officials this month told OPEC they needed an exemption from their quota of 1.5 million bbl. a day, since companies like Chevron and Total have invested billions in drilling off Angola's coast, and the country - most of whose people live...
...validate the trip—and in a move inspired by the Societies of the World 25: “Health, Culture and Community: Case Studies in Global Health” class—Henderson and Wang conducted a comparative health study of Peru and China, evaluating perceptions of Western and traditional medicine among the local residents...
...speaking with youths, church members, hospital workers in urban China, peasants, people in hospitals in rural Peru—and found that in both bustling cities and pastoral villages, people were much more likely to use herbal remedies for relatively minor issues, like fevers and colds, but embraced Western medicine for more significant problems, like diabetes and arthritis...
Especially in China, Wang said, traditional medicine is believed to pose potential long-term cures, whereas Western medicine is used to cure sudden symptoms and complex medical issues in need of immediate attention, like surgery...
...their part, Western countries have accused India and other developing countries of obfuscating the bigger issue by equating the "stock" problem of global warming with its "flow" problem. The stock of historical emissions for which the West is largely responsible must be dealt with by assigning responsibility, but the flow - the continuing emissions that developing countries are increasingly adding to - must be resolved by incentivizing cuts on future emissions. They demand more flexibility from India; the U.S. did not sign the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 because it would not accept any binding cuts unless developing countries accepted cuts too. (Watch...