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Repatriation literally means to bring something back to the fatherland, taking into custody something which once belonged to your cultural community.
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Ask most people about the causes of the current financial meltdown and the proposed massive Federal bailout and it comes down to two factors. First, sub-prime mortgages were made to households unable to pay for them when rates readjusted upward. Second...
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For a quarter century, the breed of ethnobotanists I've hung with have proposed through countless lectures and publications that crop diversity can best conserved in situ, in the cultural landscapes managed by the traditional farmers who have long been...
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When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed me to serve as the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency in 2003, my first challenge came not from the smoggy skies of Los Angeles or the pesticide-laden drainage from irrigated fields...
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Much ink and paper profits have been spilt over the past few months over the financial and housing crisis. Almost all of it has been focused on the short-term consequences of the US housing industry structurally overbuilding the wrong product...
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Esoteric, expensive, unrealistic, inspired, essential. A decade ago, these were common reactions to combining green building and affordable housing. Today the reaction is quite different - expressed by the now frequently repeated aphorism: we can't...
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There are many obvious reasons for the takeover of Fannie and Freddie yesterday by the Federal government. They include shoring up under-capitalized lenders crucial to the economy and the housing market, restoring confidence in the US financial system,...
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Political conventions are largely mass entertainment for the party faithful, punctuated by self-serving interpretations of both current events and history. Like summer big-budget movies, this year's Democratic and Republican sequels were replete with...