Monday, December 2, 2002

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 26, 2002 A group of prominent philanthropic foundations has created a $10 million commission of former energy-policy planners from both the Bush and Clinton administrations as well as representatives from industry and environmental groups to chart a long-range energy policy. The National Commission on Energy Policy, which expects to present its report in two years, could pave the way for the federal government to re-examine energy policy and come up with a coherent strategy to balance energy use and environmental protection that will pass Congress. Could go somewhere, could go nowhere. But the breadth of the commission members -- from NRDC to the CEO of the nation's largest group of nuclear-power plants -- and the savvy of its funders -- the Hewlett, Pew, MacArthur Foundation and Packard Foundations -- suggests that something interesting might just happen. 9:05:31 PM    comment []  trackback []

The Secret Life of Henry Kissinger. Let me, as one of the world's leading dissident Henry Kissinger scholars, tell you a few things about him that until now only I have known. By Neal Pollack. [New York Times: Opinion] Another opinion on the Kissinger appointment, from "someone who knows": This is the third least sensible appointment that I know in political history: the second silliest being that of Che Guevara as head of Cuba's national bank, and the all-time prizewinner being Caligula's appointing his horse as a consul of Rome. 8:52:55 PM    comment []  trackback []

'Lost Discoveries': The Non-Western Roots of Science. Dick Teresi has chronicled the contributions of Arabs, Indians, Chinese, Polynesians and Mesoamericans to modern scientific thought. By Stephen S. Hall. [New York Times: Science] 8:52:00 PM    comment []  trackback []