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Sam Hoyo

On environment, Obama and scientists take hit in poll - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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obama environment

shared by Sam Hoyo on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Sam Hoyo on 22 Sep 10
     
    A little old (December 2009) but looks at public opinion on global environmental polarization. You can further break down the poll by political party.
pjt111 taylor

The 1991 Lawrence Summers World Bank Memo on underpolluted countries - 0 views

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Summers World Bank economics Lutzenburger pollution

shared by pjt111 taylor on 11 Dec 10 - Cached
  • pjt111 taylor on 11 Dec 10
     
    The original text of Larry Summers' memo on underpolluted countries--"shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]" Summers went on to become treasury secretary under Clinton, Harvard U. president (until he was forced out), and chief economic advisor to Obama.
nghrdak

U.S.-China Media Brief - 0 views

www.aasc.ucla.edu/...timeline.shtml

shared by nghrdak on 25 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Empress of China sets sail for Canton with a shipment of ginseng
  • Earliest record of Chinese in the continental U.S. shows that three seamen on the ship Pallas arrived in Baltimore.
  • A key player in shaping early Sino-American relation
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  • Gold is discovered in California, sparking a gold rush by Americans, immigrant Chinese and others. Americans establish a foreign concession in Shanghai.
  • Thousands of Chinese workers recruited to build the western section of the Trans-continental Railroad, which was completed in 1869, a year ahead of schedule. Anti-Chinese riots start to occur throughout the West until the turn of the century
  • Burlingame Treaty
  • Saint John’s University
  • Chinese Exclusion Act
  • killing at least 28 Chinese miners and burning 75 Chinese homes
  • white,
  • Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinitel
  • The Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinitel
  • U.S. declares war against Japan.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act repealed for military, political, and economic reasons, but quotas remain.
  • The U.S. recognizes only the Republic of China
  • 1965 Immigration Act, allowing large-scale “family reunification” immigration of Chinese to the U.S. for the first time
  • The Chinese Exclusion Act is extended indefinit
  • Chinese American Vincent Chin is killed in Detroit by two white men who mistook him for Japanese and blamed him for the competition that that had taken their auto-industry jobs
  • The first American fast food company (Kentucky Fried Chicken) opens in China
  • The American-led NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
  • Wang Zhizhi becomes the first Chinese basketball player to be drafted by an NBA team
  • Congress grants China permanent Most Favored Nation
  • China gains entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), and is awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics.
  • wo Chinese Americans are appointed to the Obama cabinet: Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, and Gary Locke, Secretary of Commerce. Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. is appointed as ambassador to China
  • nghrdak on 25 Nov 10
     
    US_China relations throughout two centuries
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