Analysis confirms that the danger of Iranian nuclear weapons far exceeds the danger of eliminating those weapons before they come into existence.
Mr. Eisenstadt and Mr. Knights expect a short phase of high-intensity Iranian response, to be followed by a “protracted low-intensity conflict that could last for months or even years” – much as already exists between Iran and Israel, (Source: Washington Times).
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The nation’s largest oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, poured an estimated 4 million barrels (approximately 170 million gallons) of raw petroleum into the Gulf.
“The Macondo well, now known as the site of the nation’s largest oil spill, erupted on April 20, 2010, approximately 40 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the next 50 days, BP’s oil platform, Deepwater Horizon, poured an estimated 4 million barrels (approximately 170 million gallons) of raw petroleum into the Gulf.
Throughout the early days of the spill, accurate information in all forms was scarce, challenging a recovery response commensurate with the scale of the accident. With the well now capped, there is still incomplete information about the spill itself, as well as the temporal nature of and ecological consequences associated with the leaked oil. Also still uncalculated are the social costs that have been and will continue to be incurred by the thousands of individuals, businesses, and communities that make the Gulf coast their home.”
“The level of criminality involved, which is going to be exposed, meant that there were links between that newspaper, and that group of newspapers, and well-known criminals in this country,” Brown said in an interview with BBC television broadcast today. “This is an issue and will become an issue about the abuse of political power as well as the abuse of civil liberties.” Source Bloomberg.com
Yellow journalism or the yellow press is a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism. By extension “Yellow Journalism” is used today as a pejorative to decry any journalism that treats news in an unprofessional or unethical fashion.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
– Peter F. Drucker
“In 1996, the first year of the analysis, the US published 292,513 papers – more than 10 times China’s 25,474.
By 2008, the US total had increased very slightly to 316,317 while China’s had surged more than seven-fold to 184,080.
Previous estimates for the rate of expansion of Chinese science had suggested that China might overtake the US sometime after 2020.
But this study shows that China, after displacing the UK as the world’s second leading producer of research, could go on to overtake America in as little as two years’ time.”
Join a conversation about new ideas, principles and technologies at the cusp of reshaping businesses and industries and meet this year’s class of Technology Pioneers.
Speakers
· Lee Kai-Fu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Innovation Works, People’s Republic of China; Global Agenda Council on Innovation
· Richard T. Pascale, Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
· C. Otto Scharmer, , Senior Lecturer, Organization Studies, MIT – Sloan School of Management, USA
· Dov Seidman, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, LRN, USA
Chaired by
· Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, USA
Closing Remarks
Closing remarks from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions
Speakers
· Huang Xingguo, Mayor of Tianjin, People’s Republic of China
· André Schneider, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Economic Forum
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