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Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard: 'There is a reason the world always looks to America'
Top of the TicketFull text: The Labor leader hits all the right notes and bases in a rare address to a joint session of Congress.... -
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Fight intensifies over West Coast coal exports to Asia
GreenspacePlans for a major West Coast coal export facility-- the subject of an intense fight over greenhouse gases and U.S. coal supplies to Asia--took a new turn when Millennium Bulk Terminals Inc. announced it was withdrawing its permit for the...... -
Japan's nuclear crisis: An opportunity for geothermal energy?
GreenspaceJapan is sitting on enough untapped geothermal power to replace all its planned nuclear stations over the next decade. But with plans to build 13 more nuclear power stations, it has yet to consider harnessing its estimated 23.5 gigawatts in...... -
Vice President Predicts 'Long, Costly' Struggle in Southeast Asia
The Daily MirrorMay 24, 1961: Radio and TV comedy star Joan Davis dies of a heart attack and gets a Page 1 obituary with a jump. Raymond Chandler got an six-paragraph obituary on Page 4. Davis was 48 when she died.... -
Asia leads globe in new-office construction
Money & CompanyDue to widespread downsizing of white-collar companies during the global recession, there has been very little demand for new office buildings worldwide, except in Asia, according to new analysis by a commercial real estate brokerage. Only Asia among... -
CENTRAL ASIA: WikiLeaks dispatches reveal a Great Game for the 21st century
Babylon & BeyondThe Americans were confounded. Maksat Idenov (pictured), the Harvard Business School-educated head of Kazakhstanâs state-owned oil company, had abruptly booted Guy Hollingsworth, a Chevron Corp. executive, from a meeting and from talks over a... -
West Coast coal exports to China challenged on greenhouse gases
GreenspacePlans to open the first major coal export facility on the West Coast are likely to be delayed until next year because of an appeal filed by a coalition of environmental groups, which say shipping coal to Asia throws a...... -
International tourism up for 2010, strongest in Middle East, Asia
Money & CompanyIn another sign of an improved economy, international tourism grew by nearly 7% in 2010 compared with the previous year, the U.N. World Tourism Organization reported Monday. But the growth was mixed last year, with Asia and the Middle East...... -
Zimbabwe's rhinos are the targets of poachers with advanced technology
L.A. UnleashedHARARE, Zimbabwe â Poachers are using aircraft to hunt and kill rhinoceros, Zimbabwe's wildlife chief said Tuesday, as demand in Asia for their horns' supposed medicinal benefits grows. Seven endangered rhinos were killed in southern Zimbabwe from early... -
Conservationists, animal activists worry about effects of the Year of the Rabbit
L.A. UnleashedBANGKOK â Many Asians believe the Year of the Rabbit means good luck for those born under that zodiac sign, but conservationists warn that the furry creatures themselves are being loved to death in Asia and some species are dying...... -
Chalmers Johnson, influential scholar of East Asia, dies at 79
Chalmers Johnson, an influential scholar of East Asia's political economy whose seminal writings forced a reevaluation of both the Chinese Revolution and the Japanese "economic miracle," has died. He was 79.
Johnson, who taught at the Berkeley and San...Tags: Television, Science, Social Sciences, PBS (tv network), Colleges and Universities
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