Things begin to get tough. Tell us the bit about what that was about and mutual accountability bargain, what kind of frustration you did experience after a while within these projects were continuing. I think Jeffrey Sachs is a character who, to many of us, is recognizable. These a model, maniacal, very brilliant man who set up to try to accomplish something enormous and really stake his career on the claim that he could into poverty, and that he could do it in our lifetime. And very graciously, i think, allowed me to shadow him in a way that was terribly intrusive. If any of you have ever had a journalist like me cover you will know, it is interested. Its not fun. I ask a lot of questions. I stick my nose and everywhere. I demande demand to see every d. When things were going well, that was marvelous all around. I think for Jeffrey Sachs he was hopeful, and, frankly, i was hopeful when i began that the outcome would be a positive one. Who doesnt want poverty to be ended . And yet as t
American history regarding tolerance for very groups edifact refugee or because of the persecution of other places. Its also important to realize the way the narrative is kind of a master narrative in which the religious toleration is the forefront has eclipsed the more unfortunate part. This is a good one because a lot of americans think the United States was founded as far as european settlement of the puritans. But actually the europeans came here much earlier, such as a spam im english. But that narrative about freedom from persecution features so prominently because places like to celebrate themselves and americans have embraced this idea that the country should be a place of freedom. Host tommy how you came to write the book, why you think it was important to look at the narrative. Guest some of my research at 11 is focused as the nation was trying with the scripting crimes inflict it on us, that there is likely to be a backlash based on what ive known about the american has very
The causes of ocean, this causes ocean waters to expand and in addition, mountain glaciers are rapidly retreating which adds water to the oceans. The Sleeping Giant however in the Sea Level Rise occasion has been ice in the main major ice sheets of greenland and ant antarctica. Both ice she is are losing mass. How quickly they melt over the coming decades will determine whether we have an additional one foot of Sea Level Rise or up to four feet and perhaps even more. Another major change in our climate brought by about humaninduced warm something the increase in heavy downpours. This is clearly an area in which recent observations have been born out, have borne out our previous projections. A warm atmosphere would hold more moisture. We measured that and indeed it is happening. We predicted increased in atmosphere of water vapor and more rain comes down in heavy events and now weve seen that happen. Some regions like the northeast and midwest have seen very large increases in the rainf
Millions of American Youth is upon us. May our appreciation as a nation of the value of education among those who are our future be incentive enough to guarantee its importance in our Public Policy consideration. May all that is done within the peoples house this day be for your greater honor and glory, amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The gentleman from connecticut. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i demand a vote on the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The gentleman from connecticut. Mr. Courtney thank you, mr. Speaker, i request the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested the speaker the yeas and nays are
Orders to shoot people who protested against it. That is one of the blistering accusations leveled against ousted ukrainian president viktor again called on thursday. Ukraines interim government release the first findings of an investigation into the month of unrest and violence which ended in over a hundred deaths in kenya the report also accuses Russian Secret Service agents of bringing in weapons and explosives to live in a protest is on independence square. Russia promptly began to decline i once every twenty of men in black uniforms opened fire with live ammunition in the ukrainian capital kiev allegedly members of the regimes riot police cadet caught on that morning some fifty people were killed at least ninety died in three days of carnage. Soon after the bloodshed on independence square. President Viktor Yanukovich fled the country the opposition maintained from the start of the court issued came from the very top the preliminary report by ukraines new authorities reaches the s