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...could be lost as a result of our own actions," said Julie Marton-Lefevre, the IUCN's director-general, at the organization's annual congress in Barcelona. "We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives...
...While the world is focused, and rightfully so, on the terrifying prospect of how a nuclear Ahmadinejad regime might attempt to “Islamize” the rest of us and wipe certain unfavorable countries “off the map,” we must not let his booming threats drown out the pleas of the Iranian people, and Iranian women especially. In a recent column, Iranian journalist Amir Taheri quotes feminist Haydeh Karimi who implores, “Free people everywhere should speak out in support of Iranian women.” Indeed, thousands showed...
...moment, thus allowing banks to clean up their balance sheets and get back to lending. But a lot of economists outside government believe that the real problem is that lots and lots of financial institutions are insolvent--their losses, if they actually recognized them, are enough to wipe out their capital reserves. If that's true it would make more sense for taxpayers to give them cash outright, and take a big ownership stake in return (with the idea of selling it off a few years down the road). The Swedish solution, they call it (and longtime readers of this...
...realism behind Olmert's change of heart is of tremendous import, summed up by one sentence: "The international community is starting to view Israel as a future binational state." In other words, forget about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats to wipe Israel off the map. Echoing views he initially expressed in 2003, Olmert reasons that without an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, the Jewish state faces the self-inflicted, mortal danger of being destroyed by demographics, overwhelmed by Muslim and Christian Arabs demanding political representation. Olmert fears that the international community could ultimately favor a one-state solution...
...midst of fiscal crisis, as Wall Street crumbles and our friends grasp frantically at disappearing internships, we can’t wipe the grin off our faces. Now those perky i-bankers with their interview jackets and heels will have to live like we always knew we would. We’ll ride the bus together to our low-paying jobs and swap budget-saving coupons. That will teach them to put money before passion...