"the value of a product comes from the combination of having an idea and executing the idea. Doing the former or having the ability to do the latter aren't worth much by themselves. You have to put the two together."
Citing papers that weren't even accepted for publication until months after the review deadline for the IPCC report. The only possible sensible explanation for this might be extended-journal-version-of-a-conference-publication.
Attempts to describe life in North Korea based on interviews with defectors and a few trips that the author, as a Seoul-based journalist, was able to make into the country. Crazy stuff.
Worth reading. "In the mind of many orthodox Christians ... 'doing justice' is inextricably linked with the loss of sound doctrine and spiritual dynamism. However, Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth-century author of the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," was a staunch Calvinist and hardly anyone's idea of a 'liberal.' Yet in his discourse on 'The Duty of Charity to the Poor,' he concluded, 'Where have we any command in the Bible laid down in stronger terms, and in a more peremptory urgent manner, than the command of giving to the poor?'". (p. xii)
A book trying to present a Christian case for caring for the environment with some interesting endorsements. Tried to avoid some areas of controversy, but a little preachy for my tastes (partly due to it being the author reading the [audio]book) and a little too unquestioning at times.
The Muslim Brotherhood seems to be the largest organization opposing the government in the country, and it's previously said that the first thing it would do upon getting power would be to rip up the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty.
This one I'll put in large part to population aging. The S&P report said that Japan lacked a "coherent strategy" to address the nation's debt - what sort of politically viable strategy is there?
"A northeastern New Brunswick man avoided a charge of failing to take a breathalyzer test after an RCMP officer failed to offer the service in both English and French." Might I say that the judge appears to be an idiot - the story notes that: "The officer heard Robichaud speak French, so the arrest was made in French."
Gaming the system, 20 stone is 280 pound or 127 kg. It seems he needs to weigh a little more to qualify for a gastric bypass operation paid for by the UK's National Health Service.
