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Advanced civilizations may have policies for interacting with civilizations deemed to be less advanced than their own. On Earth, there is currently no cohesive national or global view on contact with any non-Earth based intelligent societies.

Carbon offsets, like emission trading schemes, are sold as a way of reducing emissions. Small offsets can be purchased from commercial organisations (like banks and airlines) not known for their embrace of a low carbon green economy) or from businesses created especially to sell carbon offsets.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) and Wachovia Corporation (NYSE:WB) said today they have signed a definitive agreement for the merger of the two companies including all of Wachovia’s banking operations in a whole company transaction requiring no financial assistance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or any other government agency.

Khloe Kardashian is not smart October 2nd, 2008 Khloe Kardashian blows off DUI classes again Remember when Kim Kardashian’s sister Khloe got a DUI back in November? Remember when she was sentenced to jail for blowing off the court mandated alcohol education classes and her sister Kim said this:

Khloe Kardashian is not smart October 2nd, 2008 Khloe Kardashian blows off DUI classes again Remember when Kim Kardashian’s sister Khloe got a DUI back in November? Remember when she was sentenced to jail for blowing off the court mandated alcohol education classes and her sister Kim said this:

Khloe Kardashian is not smart October 2nd, 2008 Khloe Kardashian blows off DUI classes again Remember when Kim Kardashian’s sister Khloe got a DUI back in November? Remember when she was sentenced to jail for blowing off the court mandated alcohol education classes and her sister Kim said this:

Large corporations engage in acts of Corporate Social Responsibility.  Non-profit organizations like ours sometimes engage in acts of Social Corporate Responsibility.   SCR differs from CSR because the beneficiary here is a corporation.  We recognize that large corporations can affect the course of

Today, we give you a crash course in how and why the financial meltdown of 2008 really happened, even way back in 2000, how it’s strangling the nation’s finances and how it might work itself out. 1. It all began with cheap “fiat” paper money.

The Wall Street that shaped the financial world for two decades ended on Sunday (8/21/08), when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley concluded there is no future in remaining investment banks now that investors have determined the model is broken.

Ethan Harris, the chief U.S. economist at bankrupt Lehman Brothers, says it’s been “the most tumultuous two weeks of my personal and professional life.” For Harris and everybody else on Wall Street, the gravity of this financial near-meltdown is pretty clear. It understandably all remains something of a puzzle to a lot of other people.