“The relationship with Chile and integration in particular, has been very clear and it’s a very strong aspect of her administration, in which she has clearly insisted on moving forward and deepening Argentina’s relationship with Chile,” the diplomat assured in an interview.
Zaldívar assured that there is a decision by the Argentine presidency to support all bilateral policies of “physical and energetic connectivity.”
“This is fundamental,
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The New York Times' move to install a pay wall in March was seen as risky, but the paper's profits and its digital subscribers are up, according to third-quarter profit reports.
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The New York Times' move to install a pay wall in March was seen as risky, but the paper's profits and its digital subscribers are up, according to third-quarter profit reports.
Getting people to pay for news online isn't easy, but back in March, The New York Times gave it a shot. The pay wall was seen as a risky move at the time, but the Gray Lady's third-quarter profit reports are in, and the results are better than expected. The paper's profits are up, and the Times has seen a boost in digital subscribers.
Considering these results, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik has this news tip: "If you only listen to the naysayers, you'll never succeed."
"It's worth remembering the prevailing wisdom has been that information on the Web wants to be free, and you can't charge people for news as a commodity online," Folkenflik says.
The New York Times took a leap over that notion, and others in the industry agreed it was a necessary change. The day the paper put up the pay wall, Folkenflik spoke with Gordon Crovitz, past publisher of The Wall Street
Commonwealth leaders talked through the day at a summit Saturday without nailing down how to deal with urgent human rights reforms deemed critical to the organization's survival.
The 54-member Commonwealth is still haggling over how to hive off various reform recommendations, despite dire warnings from an “eminent person's panel” that failure to act immediately will imperil the association.
The summit had been billed as a last-chance opportunity to revive the relevance of the 80-year-old international grouping before it heads to troubled Sri Lanka for its 2013 leaders' conference.
An internal, 200-page report flatly asserted that the future of the Commonwealth is in peril if it can't credibly address human rights, democratic and rule-of-law abuses by some of its member states.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who had expected a final communiqué to be completed by Saturday night, scrubbed plans for an early departure because key details remain on the table for Sunday's closing session.
Mr. Harper did not speak with reporters but frustration was etched
An early ironclad warship makes an appearance (in a slightly fanciful etching): CSS Virginia, also called the Merrimac, 1861 Image: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, VOL. V, NO. 19; NOVEMBER 9, 1861
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Teaching Machines
“Like all useful machines, the teaching machines developed slowly from the need to do a job more effectively than it could be done otherwise. They have evoked all the reactions, including the hostile ones, that we have learned to expect from a new kind of machine. Some people see the machines as a threat to the teacher, which they are not. Some fancy that they will make education a cold, mechanical process. Others fear that they will turn students into regimented and mindless robots. Such fears are groundless. The purpose of a teaching machine can be simply stated: to teach rapidly, thoroughly and expeditiously a large part of what we
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To feed China's insatiable demand for coal, U.S. companies are trying to sell and ship the lucrative commodity to the Asian market from new West Coast ports. Above, the cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant are seen on the outskirts of Beijing.
This is the second of two reports on plans to export U.S. coal to China.
Coal producers in Wyoming and Montana are hoping new export terminals will be built in Washington state so they can ramp up their sales to China. Activists are trying to stop those ports, in part because they're concerned about global warming. But a thriving export market could also drive up the price of coal here in the United States, and that has climate implications as well.
Energy economics can sometimes be like a hall of mirrors, where what you see is not actually what you get. Let's start this story from the top.
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A 133-car coal train is loaded at the Buckskin Coal Mine in Gillete, Wyo. Each car carries 120 tons of coal. New terminals in Washington state could eventually be destinations for coal, which is currently used for power in St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and the eastern U.S.
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A 133-car coal train is loaded at the Buckskin Coal Mine in Gillete, Wyo. Each car carries 120 tons of coal. New terminals in Washington state could eventually be destinations for coal, which is currently used for power in St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and the eastern U.S.
Developers want to build a huge coal export terminal in Bellingham, Wash., and another one in Longview, on the south side of the state. K.C. Golden, at the nonprofit group Climate Solutions in Seattle, says this is a terrible idea for a state that is phasing out its lone coal-burning plant as it strives to become a leader in clean energy.
"Now, to become the conveyor belt and launching pad for a huge expansion of global carbon commerce would be exactly the opposite of the future we envision, the kind of economic strategy that we're doubling down on in the Northwest," he says.
Contrast that to what's happening in China, where they're still building new coal plants like crazy. Golden says coal exports would feed that beast.
"Our fear is that if there is an unlimited supply from around the world to fuel these new coal plants in Asia, that will act as a big green thumbs-up for them to build a whole new fleet of coal plants, and we'll essentially be locked into catastrophic climate change."
But U.S. coal exports to China would not be a game-changer. China's current appetite for coal is so massive that even if the two proposed U.S. terminals ended up exporting at full capacity — that is, 100 million tons a year, or 10 percent of current production levels — that would only satisfy 3 percent of China's appetite.
If the
By Andy Dabilis for Southeast European Times in Athens -- 26/10/11
Bernard Laurens led the IMF's mission to Cyprus last year. [Reuters]
The stagnant Cypriot economy -- weakened by falling revenues, credit ratings and banks exposed to Greek debt woes -- is in need of immediate measures, the IMF warned following an 11-day visit this month.
IMF's Europe Department Assistant Director Erik Jan de Vrijer said the Fund considers the situation concerning.
"The fact that the government can not access capital markets is very serious and the risks to the banking sector compound that," he said.
Amid fears that Cyprus
By Ljiljana Kovacevic for Southeast European Times in Banja Luka -- 25/10/11
[Internal Affairs Ministry of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina]
Their job was to serve the public. Instead, authorities allege, 21 persons arrested in a police operation last month were conspiring with criminal gangs.
Operation Grand was carried out on the order of BiH's state prosecutor in an effort to combat smuggling of high-tariff goods. The detained persons include three border police officers, a member of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) and a
