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...Republican "corporatocracy" and throttled the neocon New American Century in favor of the ancient Oriental wisdom of peaceful coexistence of freedom and order. The recent Republican ineptness in matters foreign and domestic has jolted us into the revelation that conservative dogma has been largely naive and misguided, and the wise course into the future is progressive. Roger Steed, Dayton, Ohio...
...Steven Wise, a Boston-based animal lawyer who taught the course in its first year, embraced this approach. Historically, we have held a mindset that “animals are property, and property has no rights,” Wise stated bluntly, arguing that animals were designated as property in an age of scientific illiteracy. Now that modern science is revealing animals’ cognitive and emotional abilities, Wise thinks it’s time for a new legal status for animals...
...While there are plenty of wasteful defense projects to consider excising as a part of this plan, Obama would be wise to focus on one that has plagued U.S. policymakers and taxpayers both for a quarter century: ballistic missile defense...
...introduced tough labor laws designed to decelerate production of lower-value-added goods. It's in that sector that hundreds of thousands of workers are now losing jobs. The same holds true for the bubbling property market, where Chinese authorities conveyed to potential home buyers that they would be wise to hold off. "The government basically said, 'You'd be an idiot to buy an apartment right now because we're going to make sure that prices drop like a stone,'" says the investment-bank analyst. "Chinese people stopped buying. Now the government is telling them, 'It would...
...University and Faculty of Arts and Sciences,” said FAS Dean Michael D. Smith. “Despite all of the trouble, it’s clear that much good can come from learning to do with less. FAS is embracing the values of conservation and wise use of resources to minimize the impact of choices we make today on future generations.” In addition to Smith, the event also featured oceanography professor and climatologist James J. McCarthy, who served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Director of Building Infrastructure and Operations...